monday.com

15 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Dec 17, 2023 by Jason Fried · said 63 times in 10 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (27), Daniel Larea (19), Timothy Davis (6), Jason Fried (6), Sahil Mansuri (2), Yuriy Timen (1), Maor Shlomo (1), Brian Balfour (1)

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2025 46 mentions in 5 episodes 9 per episode
2024 7 mentions in 2 episodes 4 per episode
2023 7 mentions in 1 episode
2022 3 mentions in 2 episodes 2 per episode

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Everything said about monday.com, oldest first

Dec 17, 2023 neutral
Insight
Fried: Pure software products only need venture capital for marketing
“Airbnb is a physical product. Uber is a physical product. Basecamp, Monday, Asana, they're available everywhere instantly anyway. I don't know what you need the money for other than marketing.”
Jason Fried Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 32:49 Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Dec 17, 2023 negative
Opinion
Fried: He would never trade Basecamp for Monday.com's venture-backed business
“I would not trade Basecamp for Monday's business any day of the week, because I love what we're doing. We're profitable. We're happy. We don't have to deal with the things they have to deal with.”
Jason Fried Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 31:22 Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Dec 17, 2023 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Fried: Basecamp has roughly the same customer count as Monday.com
“Look, hey, we have the same number of customers roughly than they do.”
Jason Fried Dec 17, 2023 ▶ 31:43 Jason Fried challenges your thinking on fundraising, goals, growth, and more
Apr 27, 2025 positive
Disclosure
Larea: monday.com PMs sign 10b5-1 plans to maintain access to financials
“If you are a product manager at Monday, You are signing like a ten-by-five program for selling your stocks, meaning that we found a way to make everyone still see the data because we think this is the most important part.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 38:00 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Insight
Larea: Spending more time developing products rarely improves final results
“I really believe that many times, like, spending more time on working on something will not yield to better results or to better products.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 51:06 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Insight
Larea: Product teams that cannot name a 3-month transformative change lack focus
“You need to constantly think, especially at these phases, how we, how would you transform completely the product in the next three months? And if you can't answer that, and you say, listen, I'm doing so much thing, but you can't point this exact thing. You hav…”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 9:47 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Partly supported
Larea: monday.com reached $1B ARR serving 250,000 customers
“We recently announced that we cost the one billion dollar in ARR. And we're serving, as I said, 250,000 customers across the globe from virtually any industry that you can think about, like more than 200 different business verticals.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 32:24 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Assertion Not publicly verifiable
Larea: monday.com scaled from five to 30 board columns in six weeks
“Month and a half afterwards, we had 30 columns in Monday.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 9:13 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Larea: Performance is the number one feature driving software system usage
“We really believe that performance is the number one feature that makes people use your system.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 1:11:55 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Insight
Larea: Flawless initial user feedback means you built too much
“The first version get the feedback, which is not, everything is perfect, because if this is the feedback, it means that we built Too much. And probably it's not focused product enough.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 56:32 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Assertion Supported
Larea: monday.com launched five new products simultaneously
“We actually announced five different new products. Simultaneously. On the same time.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 47:05 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025 positive
Insight
Larea: Radical transparency creates employee partnership rather than demoralization
“When you hire and you have such a talented team, you want to share them, you want to share with them everything. And the reason for that is that then you're working on every challenge Together. And instead of demoralizing people, I think that for the right peo…”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 35:50 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Disclosure
Larea: monday.com delayed free trials to ensure feedback came from buyers
“In the beginning of the company, We, for instance didn't want to have a free trial, and part of it is that we really wanted to hear feedback about our product only from people that the product means something to them. The best proxy for that is that they are p…”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 58:12 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Larea: monday.com's sales CRM is growing faster than the core product did
“And for instance, Monday sale CRM is like going faster than Monday back in the days, like, you know, and it's amazing to see it.”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 47:55 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
Apr 27, 2025
Insight
Larea: Incremental goals encourage longer hours, while radical goals force smarter working
“If you set a bit like a different goal, I want to reduce it from four months to three months. So many times this translates in people's heads to, I want you to work harder. I want you to work longer hours. And this is not a message here. It's about working sma…”
Daniel Larea Apr 27, 2025 ▶ 16:12 Inside monday.com’s transformation: Radical transparency, impact over output, & the path to $1B ARR
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