Adam Grenier

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One of the biggest pieces of advice I’m giving to people that are like, “How sho

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Some of the best teams out there like Pinterest, Spotify, Square, and Uber use C

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Actually at Airbnb we had an improv teacher come and work with the PM team

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It sounds like it’s really helpful, one, in marketing, creativity and positionin

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Or giving people permission to push back on that when it doesn’t happen, I think

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You can get into these rooms with just people with really amazing esoteric knowl

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I really enjoyed it and loved it, but it was clearly very early, very quickly at

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And so I was spending a lot less than the gaming players, but because of that un

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What advice do you have or can you give to founders teams that are trying to tes

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But I would say most channels, especially new ones, are going to take more than

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But generally speaking, the scope and opportunity there is huge and it’s not goi

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And supporting growth and learning has always been Amplitude’s core focus, right

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But it’s still then I have to wait till they all respond to me and there’s still

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I think that’s another piece of it is that the audience changes aren’t always ju

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I think the direct to consumer products are still very well suited to have a mor

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And the marketing is integrated with literally every single piece of it

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Honestly, I think learn product development

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But man, when I need to, I’m willing to, and I’ll go get in the weeds with it an

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So, the two biggest inputs for me in terms of really taking the time to understa

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Yeah, exactly

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And now we’ve become safe places to have those conversations where I can be like

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I hope that to be true

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And so a couple ways I’ve found to be able to do that is advising companies, so

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