Aydin Senkut

Founder & Managing Partner, Felicis · 1 appearance on the record.

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Before transitioning to investing, Senkut was an early Google executive serving as the company's first product manager and first international sales manager. In 2006, he founded Felicis, scaling it into a venture firm known for early investments in companies like Shopify, Adyen, Canva, and Notion.

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Everything Aydin Senkut said on A Product Market Fit Show that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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Senkut: Trying to accurately estimate early TAM is a major founder mistake

“Look, I think this is the biggest mistake is basically try to estimate correctly what the market size is. You just need to know that if it works, it's going to be big enough.”

Aydin Senkut Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 13:37 How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show

Insight

Senkut: People mistakenly judge market sizes based on existing product constraints

“I think the most important thing that people don't realize is that when we look at market size, we're looking at the market size with the existing product.”

Aydin Senkut Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 13:58 How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show

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Senkut: Early Shopify dedicated two top engineers to an internal data warehouse

“When I showed up in Ottawa, Toby told me that, hey, they had these amazing engineers and the team was by the way, like less than 50 people or barely 50 people. And he said, I took two of my best engineers and we're building a real time data warehouse.”

Aydin Senkut Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 19:54 How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show

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Senkut: Early Google dedicated three of 50 employees to three-year research bets

“When we had less than 50 people, they took three people away and said, look, you're going to work on crazy research stuff that we might not even need for three years. But if we basically wait, we're never going to have that.”

Aydin Senkut Mar 8, 2024 ▶ 19:29 How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series A Inve... · PMF Show

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Episode	Date	Speaking time
How Shopify Found Product Market Fit w/ Aydin Senkut (Managing Partner at Felicis & Series	Mar 8, 2024	10m

Aydin Senkut

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