Product & Building — Foundry
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54 articles
Marc Andreessen Tells Every Founder the Same Thing: Raise Your Prices.
— Marc Andreessen
Emmett Shear: Talk to Users First, Then Have Product Ideas
— Emmett Shear
Robinhood's Baiju Bhatt Says Numbers Lie. Talking to Users Doesn't.
— Baiju Bhatt
Elon Musk: PowerPoint Is Lying to You. Build a Prototype.
— Elon Musk
Reed Hastings: Elon Musk Could Have Built a Mile-Long Yacht. He Bought Twitter Instead.
— Reed Hastings
Wealthfront's CEO Killed All Advertising to Find Out If Anyone Actually Loved the Product
— Andy Rachleff
How Josh Reeves Found a $10 Billion Idea Hiding in Plain Sight
— Josh Reeves
Gusto's First MVP Had No Website. Customers Typed Into a Laptop at the Founder's House.
— Josh Reeves
Zuckerberg's 4-Step Playbook for Building Products That Reach Billions
— Mark Zuckerberg
Peter Thiel's Warning: AI in 2024 Is the Internet in 1999. Buckle Up.
— Peter Thiel
Jack Dorsey Built Square the Same Way Engineers Built the Golden Gate Bridge
— Jack Dorsey
Michael Seibel's 4 MVP Hacks That Kill Startup Perfectionism Dead
— Michael Seibel
Michael Seibel: Your MVP Should Take Weeks, Not Months
— Michael Seibel
Jan Koum Didn't Invent WhatsApp Messaging. His Users Did.
— Jan Koum
Michael Seibel: Launch Something Bad. Do It Quickly. That's the Whole Plan.
— Michael Seibel
Joel Spolsky Made Copilot Paid and Trello Free. He Got Both Wrong and Right.
— Joel Spolsky
Pinterest Had 9 Users After Launch. Ben Silbermann Went to Craft Fairs to Find the Rest.
— Ben Silbermann
Jony Ive: The Moment You Hold a Physical Object, Everything Changes
— Jony Ive
Ev Williams Lost His Inner Compass. It Almost Killed Medium.
— Ev Williams
How Twitter Founder Ev Williams Thinks About Products
— Ev Williams
Michael Seibel: Don't Be Fake Steve Jobs
— Michael Seibel
Dalton Caldwell on Knowing When to Pivot
— Dalton Caldwell
Kevin Systrom: Most Founders Get This Dead Wrong
— Kevin Systrom
Elon Musk: Every New Technology Starts as a Toy for Rich People
— Elon Musk
How Brian Armstrong Built Coinbase
— Brian Armstrong
Jason Fried: Customers Don't Care About Your Features and Technology
— Jason Fried
Elad Gil: Things That Work Tend to Work Pretty Fast
— Elad Gil
How Instacart's Founder Grew by Doing Things That Don't Scale
— Apoorva Mehta
Elad Gil: The Three Types of Founders Who Build Giant Companies
— Elad Gil
Balaji Srinivasan: If You Have Runway, You're Not Dead
— Balaji Srinivasan
Jony Ive: Ideas Are Always Fragile
— Jony Ive
Jony Ive: Customers Can Feel When You Care
— Jony Ive
Mark Zuckerberg: You Can't 80/20 Everything
— Mark Zuckerberg
Instagram Started as a Bourbon App. Kevin Systrom Made One Smart Cut.
— Kevin Systrom
Jeff Bezos: 'You Don't Understand My Audience'
— Jeff Bezos
How Steve Jobs Perfected the iPhone Pitch — He Rehearsed It Every Day for Years
— Steve Jobs
Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong: Before Product-Market Fit, Just Keep Moving
— Brian Armstrong
Eric Migicovsky: The Three Mistakes Every Founder Makes in User Interviews
— Eric Migicovsky
Reid Hoffman: Most Startups Fail. Here Is How to Improve Your Odds.
— Reid Hoffman
David Sacks: A Great Product Hook Gets People to the Magic Moment in Seconds
— David Sacks
YC Partner Kevin Hale: The Four Pricing Mistakes That Kill Startups
— Kevin Hale
Michael Seibel: How to Run a Product Development Cycle in One Week
— Michael Seibel
Eric Migicovsky: Five Questions You Can Ask in Every User Interview
— Eric Migicovsky
Zynga Founder Mark Pincus: Engagement Metrics Lie. Revenue Per User Tells the Truth.
— Mark Pincus
Mark Zuckerberg: Listen to Your Users to Find Problems. Treat Your Solutions as Hypotheses.
— Mark Zuckerberg
Facebook's Alex Schultz: How to Estimate a Good Retention Rate for Your Product
— Alex Schultz
Seth Godin: The Difference Between a Logo and a Brand Is Everything
— Seth Godin
Jensen Huang: Your Startup Does Not Need a Traditional Business Plan
— Jensen Huang
Linear Founder Karri Saarinen: Good Design Accelerates Growth. Bad Design Kills It.
— Karri Saarinen
Garry Tan: Three Principles of Visual Design That Every Founder Must Know
— Garry Tan
Sam Altman: How to Get Your First 100 Users (Without Spending Any Money)
— Sam Altman
Michael Seibel: Analyze the Frequency and Severity of Your Customer's Problem
— Michael Seibel
Kevin Systrom's Number One Advice: Do Less. But Do It Perfectly.
— Kevin Systrom
Michael Seibel: Why Metrics Are Everything (And How Most Founders Get Them Wrong)
— Michael Seibel