Product Features

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Pincus: Novel features drive initial trial but not user retention
“New is like the novel idea that will get someone interested in your product... It might get someone to try our product, but that feature might die. The feature might actually get trial. It's like, they call it the back of the box. Like what got you to buy the …”
Mark Pincus Jun 25, 2026 ▶ 16:02 Zynga Founder: Consumer Is Not Investible Right Now - Thats Why You Should Build It · Y Combinator
Pincus: Extracting buried, proven features from existing products is gold
“When we can see something that is proven already in someone else's product, but they have, you know, the wrong idea around it, that's gold.”
Mark Pincus Jun 14, 2026 ▶ 21:35 The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more)
20VC Insight
Product features that fail at infinite scale should never be built
“If something doesn't work at an infinite scale, it doesn't work. You never put it in there for the first place.”
Raz Herzberg Dec 12, 2025 ▶ 28:41 20Growth: How Wiz Built a $30BN Brand in Enterprise | What Worked vs What Was a Mega Failure: Lessons Learned | Why Marketers Make the Worst CMOs & What To Look for in Growth with Raaz Herzberg
Misra: Users forgive missing baseline features if a product offers novel capabilities
“If you did something unique that nobody else has done, you can go and show that to people and people will come to your app just for that. And even if your app doesn't have a lot of the obvious stuff, maybe it doesn't have justify alignment, right? People will …”
Gaurav Misra Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 14:16 How to win in the AI era: Ship weekly, embrace technical debt, ruthlessly cut scope, and more
SAASTR Insight
Sharma: Treat pricing as an evolving feature, not a static decision
“First off, I want to try and make you reset your mind about what pricing is. I call it, it's another product feature. And just like other product features, it changes what your customer's behavior is. And so you should think about it the same way and use it in…”
Akshay Sharma Dec 3, 2024 ▶ 2:47 How to Leverage Pricing and Packaging to Drive Revenue with Miro, Loom, OpenAI, and Splunk
20VC Insight
Hudack: Unship product features that lack statistically significant impact
“The answer might be that there's no statistically significant impact, in which case you should, like, unship the thing, you know, or maybe there's something wrong with it.”
Mike Hudack Sep 13, 2024 ▶ 42:35 Mike Hudack: How Facebook, Monzo and Deliveroo Build Great Products | E1201 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Rathi: Onboarding and Copy Drive Product Success More Than Core Features
“The way you write your copy, the way you build your onboarding, the way you do your first warm welcome, it's going to make the biggest amount of change in terms of your product success than your core product features that you're going to build for your loyal c…”
Anuj Rathi Dec 7, 2023 ▶ 16:23 The full-stack PM | Anuj Rathi (Swiggy, Jupiter Money, Flipkart)
Crowley: Individual Features Do Not Require Dedicated Product Strategy Documents
“Typically speaking, when you're doing a strategy, you're doing it at a higher level. So I don't think, like, every product needs a strategy. Like, every feature doesn't need a strategy, for example. Like, you don't need to do this if you're, like, working on a…”
Maggie Crowley Nov 5, 2023 ▶ 40:18 Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
Dunford: Sales pitches must focus on value delivered rather than features
“When we're talking about features, we shouldn't be talking about features. We should be talking about the value that the features deliver.”
April Dunford Oct 22, 2023 ▶ 6:55 A step-by-step guide to crafting a sales pitch that wins | April Dunford (author of Sales Pitch)

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