product-market fit

also referred to as: product market fit

17 statements across 14 episodes · 7 bullish · 5 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement Jul 24, 2016 by Amit Kothari · across every show →

Everything said about product-market fit, oldest first

Jul 24, 2016 positive
Insight
Kothari: Selling professional services is a valid way to find product-market fit
“And more importantly, it helps with product market fit. Because if someone's willing to pay you for something, That tells you they're serious. Yeah. Yep. And even, even if it's not recurring, it's, you, you're getting something that other people are not, you k…”
Amit Kothari Jul 24, 2016 ▶ 8:30 EP 365: From Consultant to $300k SaaS with Amit Kotharie of Tallyfy
Apr 13, 2018 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Luke Beatty: Brandfolder Reached Cash Flow Positive After Four Years
“It was also a company that was, you know, after You know, tooling around for three and four years and really trying to find its product market fit had gotten to cashflow positive and really was a great thing.”
Luke Beatty Apr 13, 2018 ▶ 5:56 993 The Argument For Buildling a Product For Yourself First, $6.5m in Funding Later...
Sep 4, 2018 negative
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Skok: Annual logo churn above 20% signals missing product-market fit
“Any logo churn number that's greater than 20% per annum is worrying, and it's evidence that you don't have good product market fit in one of your customer segments.”
David Skok Sep 4, 2018 ▶ 13:40 1137 David Skok Matrix Partners on Hubspot Pricing Axis, Category Leaders, $100b Softbank Fund
Sep 18, 2018 positive
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Rusenko: Renewal rates are the key indicator of product-market fit
“If you have a product that doesn't have product market fit, you're going to see really low renewal rates. If you have a product that has really great product market fit, you're going to see really high renewal rates. And I think that that, that, that is a key …”
David Rusenko Sep 18, 2018 ▶ 23:52 1151 Weebly CEO: 50m Users, North of .5% Conversion to $8/mo
Jan 24, 2022
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Igor Marinelli: Capital Cannot Buy Product-Market Fit
“There's three things money can't buy friendship, love, and product market fit.”
Igor Marinelli Jan 24, 2022 ▶ 1:52 LATAM SaaS + IoT Grows 10x to $1.2m in ARR, $3.7m Round at $15m Valuation
Jan 27, 2022 negative
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Danilo: Pursuing enterprise customers early slows down product-market fit
“We did it, you know, exactly the other way where we started with fortune to 500 accounts, which had its pros namely that you can get really big contracts really quickly. I think like as, Like, you know, just get ready to get bogged down. And also it's like a l…”
Raphael Danilo Jan 27, 2022 ▶ 11:14 HR Tech Company Raises $2.5m on $18m Helping 20 Enterprises Hire Better
Oct 24, 2022 positive
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Quiguela: Startups must generate KPIs from day one before finding PMF
“We should generate KPIs since the first day. I know that It seems very early to generate KPIs when we are starting the company, when we don't reach, we haven't reached the product market fit yet, but that information will be very valuable in the future.”
Mauricio Quiguela Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 6:01 9 mistakes sales reps make when they finally send the docusign to the prospect
Oct 24, 2022 positive
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Quiguela: Startups should adopt RevOps mindset early and implement at PMF
“I think as soon as revenue operations is a culture thing, It's a mindset. We should think about it since the first day of the company, but we have to implement it after we reach the product market fit.”
Mauricio Quiguela Oct 24, 2022 ▶ 19:15 9 mistakes sales reps make when they finally send the docusign to the prospect
May 10, 2023 positive
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Stancil: Finding product-market fit requires tracking features that distract users
“And so when you're, like, looking for product market fit, this is actually probably the best thing you can do, is pay attention to, like, what are your girls in the red dress, ah, that everybody's actually distracted by when you're trying to get them to build …”
Benn Stancil May 10, 2023 ▶ 7:42 Using data to find product-market fit
May 10, 2023 negative
Disclosure
Stancil: Mode prematurely scaled ad spend before achieving product-market fit
“And basically this was us finding, thinking we'd found a product market fit, and we hadn't. That we thought we had found something that worked, we thought it was time to scale, to spend more money on ads, and all that kind of stuff, and it turns out kind of ob…”
Benn Stancil May 10, 2023 ▶ 10:21 Using data to find product-market fit
May 10, 2023 neutral
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Stancil: Startups only achieve product-market fit on a per-segment basis
“This is not something where it's like you are pre and post product market fit forever. You are pre and post product market fit for particular types of buyers, for particular products, for particular segments, and all those sorts of things.”
Benn Stancil May 10, 2023 ▶ 19:04 Using data to find product-market fit
Jul 10, 2023 negative
Opinion
Maruthavanan: Product-market fit is a fraud mental model and not actionable
“Product market fit. It's not even a framework, it's just a phrase. Some people like to call it a mental model. And I think, you know, it is a fraud mental model. I have not found a single entrepreneur who could look at the definition of product market fit and …”
Rajan Maruthavanan Jul 10, 2023 ▶ 4:19 108 ways of getting to a million dollars in ARR
Jul 19, 2023 negative
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Murray: Scaling GTM before product-market fit burns significant startup capital
“Be careful if you're overlaying go to market fit on top of your product market fit, that's going to cost you a lot of money.”
Ben Murray Jul 19, 2023 ▶ 10:38 SaaS Founder Confessionals: Lessons Learned From Raising $500 Million Dollars
Jul 24, 2023
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Appel: SaaS growth targets evolve from PMF at Seed to profitability at Series C
“Seed, product market fit, series A, prove you can sell it, series B, prove you can expand and keep those customers, series C and beyond, make it repeatable, profitable, and predictable, and then a big milestone, take a capital efficient model, move it to adjac…”
David Appel Jul 24, 2023 ▶ 8:04 3 Frameworks to Help Forecast & Inform your Board in Your First Three Year
Apr 23, 2024
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Cohen: Experimentation alone cannot scale a startup after product-market fit
“And so the things that you do dramatically change, and so just saying things like, we'll keep experimenting is not how you scale something that's already working.”
Jason Cohen Apr 23, 2024 ▶ 2:08 We just hit $400m in revenues. Here are 9 org chart, people moves I had to make to scale
May 30, 2024 neutral
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Moore: Founders Underappreciate How Fast Markets Drift Away From Products
“Particularly in the markets that many of us operate in, and AI is a great paradigm to look at around this, the speed with which markets actually are moving as well is really, really underappreciated. So while you are pivoting your way to product market fit, do…”
Bob Moore May 30, 2024 ▶ 8:48 How to Sell your Company for $60m (from a Founder who did it)
Jun 11, 2026 positive
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Komoni argues startups require product-market-price fit, not just product-market fit
“And I realized one thing, it's not all about product market fit. It's product market price fit.”
Krenar Komoni Jun 11, 2026 ▶ 10:59 Tive Hit $100M Revenue After a Down Round and $10K in the Bank
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