Adam Nash
8 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Apr 4, 2024 by Adam Nash · across every show →
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Apr 4, 2024 bullish
Adding donation presets in multiples of 18 increased median Jewish donations 80%
“The reason I got written up in the New York Times is it turned out that one little feature actually moved our median donation to Jewish charities by 80%. It increased it. That median donation went from a hundred dollars to one 80.”
Apr 4, 2024
Financing is a hiring decision because misaligned investors force unnatural operational directions
“I always tell founders that financing is actually a hiring decision. The investors you have, the board you have, Incredibly path dependent. A lot of your opportunity depends on having the right people with the right motivations involved. You don't want to sell…”
Apr 4, 2024
Traits that enable founders to scale businesses hinder them from sharing control
“The attributes that tend to select for founders who end up building the scale businesses tend to select against people in some ways that scale particularly well in different dimensions. And one of the ways they don't scale well is, is quite that posture on how…”
Apr 4, 2024
LinkedIn had no mobile product strategy in 2009 beyond an intern's project
“So in 2009, I was handed LinkedIn mobile.
It had been literally a fun, innovative thing that one of the engineers had built.
We had an intern over the summer work on actually keeping it up, but we did not have a heavy focus on mobile.
And it was because when I…”
Apr 4, 2024
Product roadmaps should follow a 70-20-10 split for metrics, requests, and delight
“I end up in this seventy-twenty-ten kind of place where I say, look, spend most of your time on metrics movers. Carve out at least 20% of your time for customer requests. But 10%, five, 10%, you have a list of these delight features. Go do it.”
Apr 4, 2024
Nash: Delight features rarely move metrics or emerge from customer requests
“You had to keep a separate cue for delight features because delight features rarely move the metrics. And by definition, delight features are surprising, and so they don't, they tend to not come in as customer requests, because if it comes in customer requests…”
Apr 4, 2024 neutral
Early eBay evaluated every proposed product feature using three-year NPV financial spreadsheets
“EBay worked very much. They had an incredibly detailed financial spreadsheet that literally every feature we built went into a spreadsheet with a three year kind of NPV based that even built in eBay's cost of capital.”
Apr 4, 2024
Founders uniquely hold the power to confer moral authority on new executives
“One of the reasons founders get to do what they do is a level of moral authority, right? I built this company for X, or I never intended that, or I was there. I can tell you what, if the situation then was now, I would have done different things. These are kin…”