search engine optimization

also referred to as: seo

6 statements across 6 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Aug 10, 2023 by Alex Kracov · across every show →

Everything said about search engine optimization, oldest first

Aug 10, 2023 positive
Insight
Kracov: Delaying SEO until scaling to $2M-$10M ARR hurts growth
“When you're early stage, it's sometimes the best stage to invest in it because you need SEO to be working when you're two, three, five, ten million in ARR. If you just start making those investments later, it's gonna, you know, really hurt your growth in the f…”
Alex Kracov Aug 10, 2023 ▶ 12:17 The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
Feb 15, 2024 negative
Opinion
Masad: SEO is not valuable economic activity, just gaming the system
“It's one of those things that I feel like it's not really valuable economic activity that companies engage in. And it's just sort of a gaming of the system type thing.”
Amjad Masad Feb 15, 2024 ▶ 22:42 The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Insight
Moore: Programmatic SEO yields A times B landing pages from A+B articles
“The cool thing is you only have to write A plus B number of articles or pieces of content to stand that up, but you get A times B number of unique landing pages or microsites as a result of doing it.”
Bob Moore Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 15:22 How to find — and keep — product-market fit | Bob Moore (Crossbeam, RJMetrics, Stitch Data)
Mar 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Guild: Local SEO produces rapid results because local competitors do not optimize
“It takes time for terms that are globally competitive. Ranking for best shoes is hard because you're competing on a global stage with Nike and Adidas and all the rest. But when you're competing for these long tail keywords that have a huge amount of intent in …”
Adam Guild Mar 27, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Scrappy tactics and a huge post-COVID pivot | Adam Guild (Co-founder and CEO of Owner)
Aug 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Canva saw SEO returns within three months, driving massive ongoing traffic
“And we started seeing returns on that within Three months and it's scaled up over the next couple of years to become a massive driving engine for us. And it still is a massive source of traffic for us.”
Cameron Adams Aug 20, 2025 ▶ 45:03 How Canva leveraged unconventional growth levers to grow to $42B | Cameron Adams (Co-founder & CPO)
Jun 4, 2026
Insight
SEO is now about LLM search; product consideration happens via peers
“SEO is now like, how do you have, how do you grab attention within LLM search results? The consideration phase of helping people, you know, feel comfortable with your product is now mostly third party conversations, right? Through social or other places. They …”
Sheila Joglekar Vashee Jun 4, 2026 ▶ 39:33 Playing it safe with marketing is the riskiest thing you can do | Sheila Joglekar Vashee (Figma CMO)
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