Bob Moesta
CEO and Founder, The Re-Wired Group. On 1 show, 2 appearances. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Bob Moesta is a co-creator of the Jobs-to-be-Done framework alongside Clayton Christensen and the CEO and founder of The Re-Wired Group. He has helped launch over 3,500 products and is the author of multiple books, including Job Moves.
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14said about them ↓ Everything Bob Moesta said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Overpaying employees causes them to become risk-averse, fearful, and dangerously passive
“When you overpay people, what happens is that, that they actually become more and more scared that they they'll lose it. And then they become more and more conservative because they don't want to rock the boat and they actually don't work. They do what they're…”
Product innovation is a conflict sport that requires constant arguments to succeed
“I believe that innovation or product is, is a conflict sport. It's like a, it's where you have to have arguments in order to be better. And every time you have an argument, it gets better.”
Dyslexia forces many into entrepreneurship because traditional jobs refuse to hire them
“There's a, there's an amazing amount of entrepreneurs who are dyslexic. And I attribute it back to the fact is it's because we couldn't get jobs. We just went to create our own thing. Cause we couldn't like, we had to figure out our own way to work.”
Struggling moments cause customer demand, not the creation of products
“What's interesting is that at least for me, the thing is what I learned was that supply and demand are not as connected as everybody thinks. Most people think they create a product and that creates demand. But the real thing that if you start to study causalit…”
Moesta: Product roadmaps beyond 120 days should focus on struggling moments
“So instead of just talking about features, it's typically talking about features for the first 90 to a 120 days. But after that, we just talk about struggling moments. Because that's the seed for real innovation and basically where new products come from.”
Moesta: Adding features creates anxiety rather than driving sales
“And most people say, if I just add more features, create more pull, people will buy. It's not true. More features create actually anxiety. Can it do all those things? And what you start to realize is if I reduce friction, which is the bottom part, I actually d…”
Moesta: Over 50% of people switching jobs do not get more money
“Over 50% of the people who got new jobs didn't get more money.”
Moesta: JTBD patterns repeat after 7-8 interviews; cap rounds at 10-12
“The pat, the interesting part is from a causal mechanism perspective and from us from a set theory perspective, meaning the sets of pushes, pulls, anxieties, and habits, it starts to repeat around seven or eight. And I usually do 10, no more than 12.”
Moesta: Core customer jobs do not change over decades, only technologies evolve
“There are really no new jobs. Right. It's just the fact is that they, we get better at them. And so the higher fire criteria get better, but the context and outcome, most jobs, I can look back 10 years and the job existed and I can look ahead 20 years and the …”
Moesta: Products and organizations do not have jobs, only people do
“Basically only people have jobs. Products don't have jobs. People have jobs. Organizations don't have jobs. People in organizations have jobs because that's the irrational part.”
Moesta: Deep Habits Obscure JTBD Insights Until Consumers Switch
“If you go to something that's just too, like it doesn't register, it's so deep of a habit that they don't really know what they're doing. You'll never going to be able to get that information out of it's again, the habitual stuff is very hard to see the job. I…”
Moesta predicts his new book Job Moves will outshine Jobs-to-be-Done
“I think that ultimately I'll be remembered more for this book than jobs to be done, because I think There's a billion people a year who switch jobs and ultimately most of them end up with a job that's worse than the one they were at, but they don't know how to…”
Job descriptions are fabricated lists of tasks managers want to avoid doing
“Job descriptions are made up. They're literally just made up and there are a list of stuff that the manager will say, all right, we want them to do this. And then they'll think of all the stuff they don't want to do. And they put that in there.”
Employers can pay below-market salaries by offering superior learning experiences
“What I've realized in, and this is another kind of insight is I can actually, and this is kind of a bad way to look at it, but I can actually pay people less if I give them better experiences.”
HR exists to manage organizational risk and fill seats, not guide careers
“If you think HR is there to help you navigate this, it's, I would tell you that they're not. Their job is to manage risk and to fill seats.”
Founders exiting a company must take a full year off doing nothing
“I tell people, especially like people who have exited a company, I tell them like, you gotta take a year off and you gotta actually get comfortable doing nothing. Because the moment you are comfortable doing nothing, you know who you are again, and you can act…”
Job seekers must hire professional resume writers to hack automated screening filters
“And so the resume writers know how all this works and they know how to like, they're the people who know how to hack the system. And if you don't have a resume writer, I would strongly suggest you find one. Because they know which ones work and don't work and …”
Attempting to improve an employee's weaknesses can ruin their core superpower
“Improving my weakness actually, you know ruins my superpower.”
Arbitrary years-of-experience requirements on job postings are lazy and counterproductive
“They'll say five years experience. What I will tell you is that's one of the worst statements you can put on any job, like recruiting thing, because why five years? What is it about what this to me is a sign that you're lazy because you're saying, oh, you need…”
Moesta: Customer Value Is Driven by Context and Outcomes, Not Pain Points
“It's not that I'm in pain, but it's the context that makes me value this in the moment that much more than something else. And so part of this is it's not just about, you know, pain and gain. It's about context and outcomes, right?”
Moesta: Products Must Meet Customers Where They Are, Not Convince Them
“And you start to realize that at some point in time, it's about meeting customers where they are, not trying to wow them and not trying to convince them. They convinced themselves to make the progress.”
Customers switch products only if push and pull overcome anxiety and habit
“And what you start to realize, and I call that F four and as if F one and F two are not greater than F three and F four, they're not gonna move. They're not gonna do anything.”
Moesta: Staging demos cut Autobooks' sales cycle in half and 4x'd conversions
“And you'd think that it would take the, make the sales process longer. It actually made the sales process almost half. And at four X basically conversion, because now we meet them where they are, as opposed to where we want them to be.”
The other half of the tape: Bob Moesta's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 13 times in 4 episodes across the shows. 1 statement on the record names them. every mention, with the transcript →
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Dunford: B2B champions need help making decisions without getting fired
“Normally when we come at this, we're like, well, how can we convince the customer that we do the job that they need to have done? And obviously we need to do that. But there is this kind of secondary job that the champion of the deal is, and that's how do I ma…”
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2025 6 mentions in 1 episode
2023 5 mentions in 2 episodes 3 per episode
2022 2 mentions in 1 episode
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| LENNY'S PODCASTLEDGER | CEO and Founder, The Re-Wired Group | 2 | 66 | 33% 1/3 | full record on Lenny's Podcast → |