Noah Desai Weiss
13 statements across 1 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 13, 2023 by Noah Desai Weiss · across every show →
On the record as a speaker too: Noah Desai Weiss's record, appearances and statements → this page counts the times other people say the name.
Everything said about Noah Desai Weiss, oldest first
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Company strategy presentations are forgotten within a month without repetition
“If you can keep an organization aligned and focused, it's like a superpower for velocity, but alignment isn't static. You don't get to do it once. I mean, this is even if you, like, present a three-year company strategy. If you don't talk about it over the nex…”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss outlines Google's 70-20-10 product portfolio allocation framework
“When I was at Google, they used to have this model they called seventy-twenty-ten, and I think they kind of classified as, you know, 70% should be, that first category you said, like, low-hanging fruit, obvious wins, incremental. 20% should be kind of extendin…”
Jul 13, 2023 neutral
Weiss: Data solves easy product problems, but big swings require intuition
“What we used to actually say early on was, you know, data can help solve easy problems, but doesn't actually solve the hard problems. And hard problems are ones where you can't actually just experiment your way, you know, down incremental paths. You actually h…”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Early products lack the scale for A/B testing and require intuition
“And definitely for most early products, you don't even have the scale to actually be able to say, we ran a test, we're gonna run the test for a year before you get statistical significance. You have to use intuition, judgment, strategy a lot more.”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Slack avoids endless debates by quickly prototyping functional software
“Prototype the path, which gets into how we at least approach a lot of what we do by not getting stuck in long product debates or endless design reviews, but actually figuring out what's the fastest path to being able to actually touch the software with your ow…”
Jul 13, 2023 positive
Jul 13, 2023 negative
Weiss: PLG companies expanding to enterprise shouldn't start with outbound BDRs
“Starting off with building out a huge BDR team to do inside sales for cold leads feels like If you already had a product-led growth motion, not the right place to begin. Because I think, without a doubt, the best leads aren't ones that you cold emailed or that…”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Product founder CEOs should follow a U-shaped involvement model
“If you think about like a major product initiative, not an experiment, but something more significant, that's like this big kind of bet. And you think about the X axis is kind of the time that goes on from the project starting to maybe launch. And the Y axis i…”
Jul 13, 2023 negative
Weiss: Product managers acting like "mini-CEOs" alienate their teams
“I will tell you that people who take the approach of being a mini CEO for a team are the ones who their teams wind up saying, why do we have to have a product manager on our team? Can't we do it without them? Because, you know, you can wind up accidentally bei…”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Multi-year product bets must be decomposed into sequential public milestones
“For any one of our large product areas, a lot of what we talk about when we're making big new investments is you have this grand vision. Okay. We're probably not going to spend the next five years building this out and then ship it and see do customers like it…”
Jul 13, 2023 positive
Weiss: 85% of Slack Enterprise Deals at IPO Originated from Self-Service
“I don't know what the latest set is, but I know when we went public, we had a sat, I think it was 85% of our enterprise deals by the time we went Public at our IPO had started off as paid customers through self-service, meaning that they literally got to the p…”
Jul 13, 2023 neutral
Weiss estimates Slack's product portfolio allocation is roughly 60-35-5
“Across the board, I would say we probably look, my hunch that I haven't actually, like, actually done the math on it, is we probably look a little bit more, like, 60, 35, five, if you will. Not quite as many fully speculative things, but maybe focus a little b…”
Jul 13, 2023
Weiss: Slack scales founder product intuition via principles and 3-year strategy
“So the first is really just about making sure that we have everyone really aligned and energized around our mission, our vision, and our kind of what we call our three-year strategy internally. So that's kind of what people are aligned at a high level. But the…”