customer

also referred to as: customers

8 statements across 7 episodes · 5 bullish · 1 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 5, 2018 by David Rusenko · across every show →

Everything said about customer, oldest first

Sep 5, 2018
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Rusenko: Listen to customer problems, but ignore user-proposed solutions
“Listen to their problems, not their solutions. So customers will tell you the pain that they're facing. Listen to that. When they talk about the solutions, their proposed solutions, you could just completely ignore that. Because they generally aren't that grea…”
David Rusenko Sep 5, 2018 ▶ 16:54 David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit · Y Combinator
Jul 10, 2019 positive
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Nahm: A product's true identity is defined by customer word-of-mouth
“Like you can think that you're delivering this game changing such and such platform, something, something, but like what your customers say about you or what they say to their friends when they're talking about your software, I mean, that's ultimately who you …”
Sarah Nahm Jul 10, 2019 ▶ 14:04 Startup Hiring Advice from Lever CEO Sarah Nahm with Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Aug 15, 2019 positive
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Alströmer: Startups with definable target customer lists should use direct sales
“If you can make a list of all your customers, even if that list is a 100,000, or 500,000, if, as long as it's not mainstream enough, they'll be in the tens of millions, you're probably gonna do sales.”
Gustaf Alströmer Aug 15, 2019 ▶ 23:32 Gustaf Alströmer - Growth for Startups · Y Combinator
Dec 11, 2019 positive
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Srini: Roughly 75% of ZeroDown customers buy homes within three weeks
“Probably 75% of our customers so far have bought homes in two to three weeks. And they're in a home like in a month, month and a half. From the time they heard about zero down a month and a half, they're in a home, which is crazy.”
Laks Srini Dec 11, 2019 ▶ 12:54 Laks Srini on Making Homeownership in Reach with ZeroDown · Y Combinator
Feb 9, 2023 neutral
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Mañalac: Potential Customers Care About Tangible Benefits Over ML Buzzwords
“If you're showing this to potential customers, I think they'll care less about the fact that the product is ML-driven and more about the fact that it's personalized digital therapy.”
Kat Mignalek Feb 9, 2023 ▶ 9:03 The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
Apr 14, 2023 positive
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Seibel: Customers Forgive Startup Mistakes If Founders Genuinely Care
“And I think you might find that with your customers, like, even if you screw up, like, if you really care and you're really helping them, they're not gonna fire you. They're not gonna fire you. It's, it is so rare to find products or people who actually care. …”
Michael Seibel Apr 14, 2023 ▶ 10:50 The Student's Guide To Becoming A Successful Startup Founder · Y Combinator
Sep 8, 2025 negative
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McGrew: Building what customers ask for turns startups into consulting firms
“I think one of the other failures, by the way, that's even prior to that, and more, the easier failure to become a consulting firm, it's where you build the product in the field that the customers are asking for, rather than the one that's actually valuable to…”
Bob McGrew Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 23:10 The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
Sep 8, 2025 positive
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McGrew: Demo-driven development forces teams to focus on customer pain points
“What the demo does is it changes the locus of what you're thinking about from thinking about what can I build to what is it that the customer wants? And am I solving that pain point for the customer?”
Bob McGrew Sep 8, 2025 ▶ 42:59 The FDE Playbook for AI Startups with Bob McGrew · Y Combinator
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