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Horowitz: Onboarding a $1k customer takes similar effort to a $100k customer
“Bringing on a new user, whether they're gonna pay you a thousand dollars a year or a 100,000 dollars a year, the amount of work to onboard them and make them successful is pretty similar. And so you might as well focus on the bigger deals”
Horowitz: Monetize open source by commercializing unavoidable infrastructure costs
“Both at Mongo and at VM, the way I always thought about it was, you know, the core product is open source, and that things you'd have to pay for anyway should be commercialized, and by making it really easy and making it the best way to use the product, you ca…”
Horowitz: Developers are inherently lazy and write software to automate tasks
“Developers, I always joke about this, developers are inherently lazy, right? Why do you write software? You write software to automate things that you don't want to do, right? You write software to make your life easier.”
Horowitz: Developer products have 30 seconds to capture user attention
“So my whole belief on developer led products is you've really got about, you know, five seconds, 30 seconds, maybe to convince someone that like they should spend two minutes listening to you or 10 minutes. And then you got two minutes to convince them to spen…”
Horowitz: Developer enthusiasm drives corporate tech adoption through recruiter feedback
“And look, recruiters are pretty good at knowing what, why they're losing candidates and what gets candidates excited. And so if you can just, you know, get, again, get developers excited about it, recruiters are gonna, you know, eventually bring that up the fu…”
Horowitz: Early product development years should not count toward GTM maturity
“Like I think years into the company is always tricky because, you know, both at Mongo and VM, they're pretty deep tech companies. So you spend a couple of years up front where you're really pretty heads down building. So I think you can't really count those co…”