Customer Feedback

topic on 4 shows · 5 statements across 5 episodes

In Depth Startups For the Rest of Us How I Built This 20VC

5 statements about Customer Feedback, every show

Walling: Customer feedback cannot dictate how a founder should pivot
“If you have 50 customers that are not really paying or churning, and you ask them what you should do differently, they'll tell you 47 different things. And as the founder, you have to make the hard decision with incomplete information to figure out what and ho…”
Rob Walling May 12, 2026 ▶ 21:08 Episode 832 | Going Full-time, When to Pivot, Building With Young...
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Pilarinos: Direct customer conversations inherently bias user feedback experiments
“I don't think you can be fully intellectually honest if you're talking to the person. How we're sitting, the tone of our voice, what we're wearing, all these things have influence. It's the only way you can be truly intellectually honest if you have absolutely…”
Dennis Pilarinos Mar 21, 2024 ▶ 54:25 Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
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Raanan: Founders claiming universal customer love are misreading feedback
“Whenever entrepreneurs tell me that customers love what we do. Every customer we spoke with like to get our product, you know, like to get their hands on a product. You probably misunderstood the customer. You probably didn't listen well in a conversation. Tha…”
Gili Raanan Mar 18, 2024 ▶ 1:06:13 Gili Raanan: One of the Best Seed Investor of All Time: 1 Decacon, 7 Unicorns, 4 Acquisitions| E1128 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Kaufer: Hospitality operators who cannot handle feedback are in the wrong business
“If you are in the hospitality business this is your life. Don't be in the hospitality business if you can't take feedback. And if you can't take feedback, some of which is good and some of which is not living up to Expectations, however unreasonable they might…”
Steve Kaufer Oct 31, 2022 ▶ 1:03:29 Tripadvisor: Steve Kaufer
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Basing product features on two or three customer interviews fails
“I think if you just talk to two or three customers, you're probably going to end up building the wrong things.”
Florian Leibert Jan 19, 2018 ▶ 13:51 20VC: Why You Should Not Always Listen To Your Investors, The Pros and Cons of Strategic Investors & How To Approach Operational Efficiency with Scaling with Florian Leibert, Founder & CEO @ Mesosphere

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