Peak
company on 5 shows · 9 statements across 2 episodes · said 41 times in 10 episodes since 2021
My First Million 13 
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9 statements about Peak, every show
Isenberg: AI-native app Peek will inspire a thousand 'Peek for X' startups
“What I like about Peak is it's a peak, no pun intended, to a whole new wave of consumer mobile apps. Like there's like a thousand like peaks, peak for X ideas, startup ideas that could come out of this.”
Jiang: Self-improvement apps must guide user actions, not just track metrics
“It's the same kind of concept of, like, you know, you have to, like, capture not just the tracking and the numbers part. It's like there's so much more, so many more steps to ultimately getting to you taking an action and then seeing the results of the action.”
Jiang: Apply the 'Rule of Six' for optimal app prototype user testing
“So I had this thing I call a rule of six, which means talk to six people that you think is in your ideal customer profile. Two less is like, you don't have enough sample size, too many. It's like, you just don't move fast enough because like, you know, people …”
Jiang: The Peek mobile app took 1.5 months to build before launch
“So we basically took this and spent about One and a half months actually building it out before we launched in the app store.”
Jiang: Peek users engage 7x more frequently than traditional desktop dashboard users
“We're already seeing how people are using our app nearly seven times more frequently than like your desktop dashboard app.”
Jiang: Peek doubled week-three retention using behavioral and onboarding reminder notifications
“We did two things that actually shot our week three retention up from that, ah, from like, 13% to essentially, like, 28% in, like, a short period. We improved onboarding completion, literally just asking people, hey, it's been three days, just connect your ban…”
Jiang: Peek maintains direct DM channels with 50 power users for feedback
“I interact a lot with people on replies, DMs, probably have like at least 50 people, like in some kind of direct line of communication that just, you know, sends me this stuff while we're building peak in public.”
Parr: Operational excellence is a commodity risk solved by hiring top operators
“The third risk is operational excellence. Are you competent enough to pull this off? And that's the risk that they have. And I actually think that's a pretty easy risk. Cause that's a commodity. I mean, there, there's there, if you overpay a handful of Uber em…”