Conversion

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12 statements about Conversion, every show

20VC Insight
Swulinski: Startups need 50 conversions before running paid ad campaigns
“If that's already happening, then your conversion tracking is working on your website or your app or whatever, and you get to 50 conversions, right? Then you can start paid because that's like the minimum line of whatever your conversion action is that the alg…”
Matt Swulinski Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 22:23 How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
a16z Insight
Massa: AI agent evals should measure conversion, not call volume or duration
“Like I see companies like measuring number of calls or minutes during the call or some like superficial KPIs that give you some information, but that doesn't really work. Like the important thing is Did this customer convert? Is it bringing value to the custom…”
Ale Massa Aug 9, 2026 ▶ 10:08 Kavak's Playbook for Rebuilding a Company Around AI
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Walling: Qualifying Higher-Tier Leads Tripled Conversion Rates at Drip
“And we found that we had a two to three X improvement of conversion for those instantly.”
Rob Walling Jun 17, 2025 ▶ 33:39 Episode 779 | 10 Myths Most SaaS Founders Believe
BIGDEAL Insight
Sanchez: Broad viral reach dilutes messaging and ruins sales conversions
“Which is you have to almost water down your message slightly to go so wide. And it has a direct anti-correlation to conversion, aka getting people to buy things from you.”
Codie Sanchez May 7, 2025 ▶ 16:32 Money Making Expert: How to Turn Attention into $$$
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Adding carbon offset copy in checkout cart boosted Etsy buyer conversion
“The text change was in our cart where we call out Etsy offsets carbon emissions from every delivery. And just adding that simple line of text was something that, like I said, really resonated with our buyers and the type of customer that comes to Etsy and real…”
Tim Holley Sep 3, 2023 ▶ 34:43 Inside Etsy’s product, growth, and marketplace evolution | Tim Holley (VP of Product)
Tan: 0.5% conversion wins do not matter for early-stage startups
“That company X might be at Dropbox, where every .5% improvement and conversion makes a difference, but if you're early stage, it doesn't matter, and you need to actually think bigger.”
Melissa Tan Jun 18, 2023 ▶ 52:17 Building high-performing teams | Melissa Tan (Webflow, Dropbox, Canva)
20VC Insight
Activation and conversion are the easiest levers for early growth wins
“First of all, those two levers are the easiest place to find quick wins. Like I mentioned, As a new growth person or growth leader, you want to find quick wins because wins change people's perception. You can get more resources. Everything else become easier. …”
Hila Qu Jan 18, 2023 ▶ 50:18 Hila Qu: The Ultimate Guide to Product Growth at Your Startup | 20VC #967 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Effective onboarding can intentionally decrease top-of-funnel conversion to boost retention
“I actually think if you're doing it right, sometimes conversion should actually decrease a little bit. So you might actually have fewer people getting all the way through successfully. But I think that's okay because a lot of those people were probably not the…”
Adam Fishman Oct 13, 2022 ▶ 45:32 How to build a high-performing growth team | Adam Fishman (Patreon, Lyft, Imperfect Foods)
Drury: StayTuned has acquired six apps focused on core merchant metrics
“We have six apps right now that we've acquired since the fall and we are focusing on things that make sense to our merchant minds, which is things that increase AOV, UPT conversion, which a lot, I know many, many apps you can kind of say they do, but we're rea…”
Laura Lynn Drury Jul 6, 2022 ▶ 3:17 Startup Acquisition Stories with Lauralynn Drury - VP of Experience, StayTuned Digital
Chris Out: Mirroring customer vocabulary directly increases conversion rates
“Like tweak it a little bit in the way that they want to buy it, use their phraseology, use their vocabulary, because that will increase your conversions.”
Chris Out Jun 8, 2021 ▶ 10:34 The Goldmine of Growth Hidden in Every Business
Nathoo: Lawyers frequently make errors on SAFE conversion cap tables
“The cap tables that we see, and we've now seen thousands of cap tables, it's surprising how many times the lawyers actually get the conversions wrong.”
Kirsty Nathoo Mar 6, 2018 ▶ 32:21 Carolynn Levy and Kirsty Nathoo - Startup Investor School Day 1 · Y Combinator
Building custom funnels for each affiliate maximizes conversion rates
“What we do is we create custom funnels for every affiliate, which most people don't do. Most people have one funnel for whatever product. So for us with the same product, we are, for example, we have a muscle building product sorry, muscle building funnel. We …”
Matt Gallant Jan 23, 2016 ▶ 4:37 How to Make $250k In Health and Fitness Industry with Matt Gallant Episode 132

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