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Adora Cheung

9 statements across 1 episodes · 3 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Aug 1, 2019 by Adora Cheung · said 8 times in 8 episodes since 2015 · across every show →

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Aug 1, 2019
Insight
Adora Cheung: Marketplaces must measure metrics where both sides receive value
“Well, you pick a value that actually represents them both getting value. So in Airbnb's case, it would be nights booked, right?”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 8:58 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 positive
Assertion Supported
Adora Cheung: Early Airbnb founders fixated entirely on missed growth targets
“This is in fact what the Airbnb founders did in the beginning. And if they hit the numbers, great. Ah, if they did not, then that's all they would talk about.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 21:08 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 negative
Insight
Adora Cheung: Acquiring early users through paid channels is cheating growth
“I think in the early days using paid users is actually cheating growth and you should avoid it as much as possible.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 19:33 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 negative
Insight
Adora Cheung: Free user feedback is a trap for early-stage startups
“That's a trap because free users will give you different types of feedback The users who are actually paying you. Paid users are just more serious about the product and hopefully will be more serious about giving you feedback.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 6:30 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 positive
Insight
Adora Cheung: Tracking one primary metric outweighs juggling multiple variables
“If there's a way to get 90% of the job done with just one variable, that's better than having a bunch of variables that gets, Let's say, 91% of the job done. In this case, the job to get done is quickly determining how well your startup is doing.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 2:09 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019
Insight
Adora Cheung: No single metric tells 100% of a startup's story
“There's no metric that actually tells a story that tells a hundred percent of the story, maybe 90%, but not a hundred percent. And so sometimes founders fool themselves by literally only tracking their primary metric and nothing else.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 11:33 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 negative
Opinion
Adora Cheung: The 'north star metric' concept misleads early-stage founders
“People have referred to the primary metric as a north star metric, and I actually don't like the term north star because it kind of people have interpreted it as something you just focus on this one metric and then ignore everything else.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 11:18 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Adora Cheung: Top YC Demo Day startups grow 5% to 10% weekly
“So I actually went back and I looked at the good startups who pitched in recent YC demo days. So these, if you think about these startups, they were three months prior, they were all in the phase that you are probably in today. And it turns out the growth rate…”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 15:40 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
Aug 1, 2019 positive
Insight
Adora Cheung: Good enterprise startups compress sales cycles from months to days
“Like good enterprise startups that time to sale goes from months to hopefully days if not hours.”
Adora Cheung Aug 1, 2019 ▶ 19:02 Adora Cheung - How to Set KPIs and Goals · Y Combinator
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