product
4 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Aug 30, 2016 by Jessica Livingston · across every show →
Everything said about product, oldest first
Aug 30, 2016 positive
Livingston: The Most Successful Founders Focus Exclusively on Product and Users
“The most successful founders, I've noticed, are totally focused on two things. Building their product and making something people want, which of course is our motto and talking to their users. And they do not let themselves get distracted by anything else.”
Feb 23, 2018 positive
Sep 5, 2018 positive
Rusenko: Great brands are built on the same core insight as the product
“Great brands are built around a fundamental insight, a consumer insight that some truth that's just not really acknowledged out there. And ideally this is the same one that your product is built on. So it's really, really powerful if you can identify that insi…”
Sep 8, 2025 negative
McGrew: Bringing one-off FDE solutions directly into core products causes over-specialization
“There's a classic failure mode here where, you know, the FD implements something for one customer and you say, great, well, that's how you should do it. And you bring it directly into the product. And it turns out if you do that, you're building something that…”