Table Stakes Features
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
Startups For the Rest of Us 
Lenny's Podcast 
20VC
3 statements about Table Stakes Features, every show
Walling: Table-stakes software features will commoditize faster than ever
“And I do think that table stakes features are going to be commoditized faster than they ever have been, right? You can't coast on a feature list anymore.”
Iyengar: Highly competitive markets require optimizing product development speed over holistic design
“In a very competitive context where there are just table stakes features that customers need and that's been validated by the market, you need to optimize for speed more so than anything else. But it is an approach that outlives its usefulness pretty fast.”
Doshi: Spending years matching incumbent table stakes produces an inferior product
“If we were to just build all of these, what I call table stakes features, it would just take us five years just to even just basically meet the table stakes. And we could have done that. We could have done that, but at the end of those five years, you end up w…”