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Enterprise software bloat is driven by buyers negotiating on missing features
“And it's all about the historical war between customers and suppliers of enterprise business software, where it's like this self-defeating fight for features and complexity. It's all driven on fear and it's driven on, you know, fear based negotiation tactics. …”
Avoiding complexity is the key to building habit-forming products
“And that's the core of how you can make something habit forming. You know, if you have a product that is complicated to work with and not a joy to work with, Then it's going to be harder to get yourself into a habit of using it, even if you want to use it.”
Human user testing yields greater insights than purely data-driven metrics
“We have recently made quite an investment of time and energy into user testing of features sometimes even before we develop them so that we can get features into the hands of real people who aren't inside our heads and see what makes sense to them. And that's …”
Founders should evaluate potential acquirers like interviewing a prospective employer
“I guess I can say that what we did was we evaluated whether there would be a fit in the same way that you would evaluate an employer when you're being interviewed and essentially interviewing them for a job. At least that's the way I looked at it, and I think …”