growth
8 statements across 8 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 8 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2022 by Elena Verna · across every show →
Everything said about growth, oldest first
Sep 22, 2022 neutral
Confirming true product-market fit requires 6 to 12 months of retention
“So growth can only be discussed if you have a strong product market fit. What does it mean to have strong product market fit? Is that you A, have retention obviously, so it takes some time to actually measure retention. And I would say at least six months to a…”
Jun 11, 2023 neutral
Singhal: Professional superpowers naturally create corresponding executive blind spots
“Great collaborators sometimes are very reticent to present their own opinions because they're so good at assimilating others or people that are amazing at growth struggle to be innovative. People that are world-class storytellers struggle to get in the details…”
Oct 5, 2023
Balfour: Adding good friction often outperforms reducing friction for down-funnel engagement
“I think a lot of people are taught to always reduce, reduce, reduce friction, but actually oftentimes the right thing to do is to add the right amount of friction to, you know, create, create those experiences and those right engagement metrics down funnel”
Oct 12, 2023 negative
Press coverage is too unpredictable to rely on for startup growth
“This is not something that I think that you should bank on as a strategy for growth. It's a great add-on, but if you think that press by itself is going to solve your problems, you're wrong, because it might, but it's way too unpredictable.”
Oct 15, 2023 positive
Katie Dill: Product quality directly drives growth, not trades off against it
“I know there's this saying of like, it's growth versus quality, but like, Quality is growth. And if you think about how you can make your product easier to use and more understandable, you know, that will of course drive people to use it and use more of it and…”
Jan 21, 2024 negative
Simultaneously pursuing high growth and higher profit margins is inherently contradictory
“Growth and profit are, they battle each other. Let's say we define profit as return on equity. Well, if you're going to increase growth and increase return on equity, how do you do that? Because you're basically going to invest less to get your return on equit…”
Nov 7, 2024
Shopify Divides Product Teams Across Three Time Horizons
“There's three major product groups at Shopify. There's core product, which is basically building the hundred year, the right things for commerce, a hundred years from now. There's merchant services, which is building things like payments, shipping, kind of the…”
Oct 5, 2025 positive
Albert Cheng: Music and growth both rely on rapid mistakes and repetition
“I think music and growth, they both rely on this just consistent repetition. Like you're constantly making mistakes. You have this super tight feedback loop. You have to get really resilient to just making mistakes all the time. And you know that the way of le…”