Ellis: Companies can boost PMF scores by increasing user investment
Sean Ellis · Sean Ellis led growth at Dropbox—& invented growth hacking. Here's his step-by-step growth guide.... · PMF Show · Aug 15, 2024 · at 10:54
Sean Ellis, creator of the Sean Ellis PMF test, discusses user psychology and switching costs on A Product Market Fit Show with Pablo Srugo.
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“You can actually Boost the score by having people kind of become more invested in a product.”
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