Gabe Monroy

5 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 9, 2023 by Gabe Monroy · across every show →

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Feb 9, 2023 negative
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Monroy: Building what customers ask for often yields zero impact
“You listen to customers, you build what they claim that they want, and there's actually no impact on the other side of that.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 6:06 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Feb 9, 2023 positive
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Monroy: Products do not need to be painkillers to generate big revenue
“Not every product must be a painkiller to be successful. Candy sells really well. A good example of this is gaming, right? Video games, mobile games on your phone. That's candy, right? It's giving you a quick dopamine hit. Like, you can make a lot of money sel…”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:33 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Feb 9, 2023
Disclosure
Monroy: OpDemand spent $1M delivering an MVP before getting feedback
“Think about that MVP that we built at OpDemand, right? That cost me about a million bucks to go deliver that. Million dollars. I didn't really have meaningful product feedback until after I had shipped an MVP that cost me a million bucks.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 16:45 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Feb 9, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Monroy: OpDemand suffered from misaligned UI, marketing, and sales positioning
“Now the problem that we had with OptiMand was we were failing to communicate what we were offering. The UI was candy. The marketing made it feel like a vitamin. AWS made easy is, you know indicative of something that's a nice to nice to have, not a must have, …”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:58 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
Feb 9, 2023
Insight
Monroy: Teams must validate designs with customers before writing code
“To understand if you are building candy vitamins or painkillers, you need to take a design first approach where you're out, engaged in market, talking with customers, ideally before you write a line of code.”
Gabe Monroy Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 14:25 Why You Want to Develop Product Painkillers, Not Vitamins | DigitalOcean CPO Gabe Monroy
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