Jeff Weinstein
28 statements across 1 episodes · 14 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jul 11, 2024 by Jeff Weinstein · said 6 times in 3 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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Jul 11, 2024 positive
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Stripe Atlas automates company creation into a single click
“When this podcast airs, I guess today it will be true that when you go to start a company on Atlas, it will just be a single click. You go to type in your friends' names, how, what the name of the company will be. It'll tell you if it's available automatically…”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Stripe dashboard usage predicts team alignment and customer obsession
“In fact, we can measure at Stripe the usage of our dashboards by team, and so we can see which teams are themselves looking at their own metrics, and that is an incredibly useful predictor of how on the same page they are and how customer obsessed they are.”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Product craft includes sales, support, and compliance, driving business value
“So I feel when people think, oh, you know, product quality and craft has some limit towards business value. Like there's some asymptote that you have to be like, well, kind of product plate time quality is over. We need to talk about business. It's like, let's…”
Jul 11, 2024
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Demand upfront money before building custom enterprise features
“If we're super serious about this, send us a million dollars. Like wire us a million dollars. We'll happily wire it back anytime you need it, but let's actually Put some stake in the ground about the value. And I find that in the cases in which they're like, w…”
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Jul 11, 2024 neutral
Weinstein: Stripe requires enterprise financial commitments before building custom roadmap items
“And even at Stripe scale, I've heard our founders somewhat push this methodology on us, where you, one from the outside might think, well, it's a 8000 person company. Surely they have just regular ways of building things for larger customers. And like, we too …”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Direct access to 5 to 10 forward-looking customers gives sufficient signal
“You don't need 10,000 of those people to talk to. If you're text message friendly with five or 10 of those, you are going to have so much direct signal about where to go that you kind of forget how you did it in the past.”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Using third-party vendors forces teams to build more resilient software
“And two, I think it also causes us to build better software in that we now need to evaluate If something's actually working because it's happening externally, whereas when you build it yourself, again, you have this natural feeling, well, we built it. It must …”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: B2B builders should discount friend feedback to zero
“I just set a rule, which was we discount all of that feedback from our friends to zero. Like that is not of interest to us. It doesn't, we don't even write it down. It's not part, it's just not part of what we're talking about at all. We're only interested in …”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Charging money is the best forcing function to uncover real value
“And then the paying part is a forcing function because, again, even with Sarah, because you're paying attention to her and solving her problem a bit, she'll say, of course, oh, this is great. I want feature X, Y, and Z. Can it do one, two, and three? Naturally…”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Teams should track friction via 'Users Having a Bad Day' logs
“And I think for almost any scale business, if you are bored one day and you're not sure what to measure, just make a user having a bad day chart, omit a log line and count it as a bar chart. And then anybody else can add their own bar chart on top of it. And s…”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Asking users about daily life reveals their biggest problems quickly
“Ask them about their regular life as a human. You know, what did you do yesterday? And they'll be like, oh, at work? I'm like, we're not. Whatever. And people just, they'll start to spill. They'll just start to spill and eventually they'll get to their biggest…”
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Weinstein ranks the three best methods for adopting customer mindset
“Best is if it's you and you're your own customer. Okay. Second best would be sitting right next to the customer in the outside world. And then like, okay, fine. I'll take a third best, which is pantomiming the customer. And with a zero with enforcing, you don'…”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Customers only get out of bed for their top problem
“People don't really get out of bed for their second problem, right? They get out of bed for their first problem and you have to carefully listen and not pitch your customer or your prospective customer as you're trying to trying to figure this out.”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Aggressive deadlines inject contagious momentum into product teams
“We will do the work the night before it's due. So let's just make it due tomorrow. Can we turn tomorrow into today? So just optimistically seeing if we can just inject energy to go, go, go has produced surprising results. And I think it ignites in other people…”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Small homework assignments filter high-signal users better than 30-minute calls
“Do you mind sending me an email with three to five bullet points about the details of how you got to this issue? And that's not a 30 minute meeting. Don't need to blow up your whole life to get on the phone with them. It's not a huge homework assignment to the…”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Product dashboards should measure metrics customers would celebrate seeing
“And I think you have to find a measure by which it speaks directly to the, to what the customer wanted, and that if you by accidentally leaked your dashboard to them, your customer would be ecstatic to learn that that's what you were measuring the whole time.”
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Team diversity is an up-funnel recruiting pool problem
“It's not a down funnel problem. It is an up funnel problem and where you have to just make sure that for each role you're comfortable with the outlet, like with the distribution of people and backgrounds in your candidate pool and go from there.”
Jul 11, 2024
Jul 11, 2024
Weinstein: Stripe Atlas had a bug granting 25 shares instead of 25%
“We had this bug in which for a handful of our legal docs, they were handing out, let's say, 25 shares rather than 25% of the shares. We dropped the percentage sign, and thankfully, a founder noticed this in the docs and tweeted about it.”
Jul 11, 2024 positive
Weinstein: Concise, emotional metric names drive team alignment and buy-in
“The brevity and the focus and the customer
Mindset built into the chart name can become currency inside the company. It's like, oh, I'm working on making the, like this chart go up and it feels good to just say the name out loud rather than some complicated un…”