Craig Cannon

9 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2017 by Craig Cannon · said 2 times in 2 episodes since 2018 · across every show →

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Oct 4, 2017 positive
Insight
Cannon: Managing people well provides more leverage than top-tier technical skills
“Managing people well is insanely high leverage. Like, way higher leverage than even if I was the best programmer in the world.”
Craig Cannon Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 35:55 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Jan 5, 2018
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Cannon: Podcast hosts must actively manage room energy rather than relying on guests
“I've recognized how important it is to control the energy in the room, and as the host, it's totally on you. A lot of people think, oh, you know, I'll just bring in Leah and Tom, and they're gonna be super fun. This is gonna be great. And you are both super fu…”
Craig Cannon Jan 5, 2018 ▶ 41:47 Leah Culver of Breaker and Tom Sparks of YC Answer Your Questions About Security and Podcasting · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 positive
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Cannon: Publishing physical books helps startups stand out because competitors won't
“This is super powerful in terms of, like, your influencer status, but really, really hard to track. So this would be later down the road, but it is effective, and because it's hard, most people aren't going to do it, so you can really stand out.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 18:53 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 positive
Insight
Cannon: Anonymous high-volume headline brainstorming eliminates status bias
“And so what this is really good at is, first of all, it removes biases for, like, who's the CEO, who's the new guy, or whatever, or girl, whatever. And it also gets you past the point of the, like, those first three ideas Which are kind of the same from everyo…”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 11:36 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 positive
Insight
Cannon: Remarketing to website visitors is the cheapest Facebook ad audience
“What this is going to do is capture who's hitting your site, who's logged into Facebook, so then you can later remarket at them, and this is going to be much cheaper than any other kind of Facebook audience that you can create.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 8:02 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 positive
Opinion
Cannon: Authentic engagement on Hacker News and Product Hunt remains undervalued
“Just getting good at engaging with your community on HN and Product Hunt is really undervalued.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 18:10 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 positive
Insight
Cannon: Text interviews are a low-effort content cheat code for startups
“Text interviews are like a total cheat code for young companies, because they require way less production than video or audio. The internet really likes it for like SEO, for scraping and it makes the person look really smart.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 16:44 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018 negative
Insight
Cannon: Early-stage startups should ignore brand building entirely
“There's this third thing called brand, which is kind of this like vague, misty thing about like how people perceive you. You really don't need to worry about this early on.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 7:13 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
Sep 19, 2018
Insight
Cannon: Avoid content marketing until user churn is low
“You really want to be doing this after you've made something people want, and you're confident that they're not churning. Because if they're churning, you're just wasting a ton of energy and a ton of money.”
Craig Cannon Sep 19, 2018 ▶ 5:15 PR + Content for Growth by Kat Mañalac and Craig Cannon · Y Combinator
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