Albert Cheng

Chapters

Growth as the job is to connect users to the value of your product

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Key terms: growth, connect, users

Vanta also helps you complete security questionnaires up to five times faster so

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Key terms: vanta, also, helps

Well, that’s very flattering, but I appreciate it

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Key terms: well, that’s, very

Fun fact, my wife bought me piano/singing lessons for Father’s Day recently, and

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Key terms: fact, wife, bought

When you lose a game now as opposed to surfacing your blunders and your horrible

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Key terms: lose, game, opposed

Exactly right

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Key terms: exactly, right, users

And I think what’s also kind of interesting is that just human nature is that if

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Key terms: think, what’s, also

I think for smaller startups, sure, PMs should just go ship it, but for us, we a

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Key terms: think, smaller, startups

And then the second thing, which is I think equally if not more interesting is t

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Key terms: then, second, thing

Yeah, I think first of all, why do freemium subscription in the first place is a

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Key terms: yeah, think, first

A lot of apps naturally do that because that’s how they break the mold and get t

00:28:53

Key terms: apps, naturally, because

Yeah, and the retention piece, that’s such a good point

00:32:06

Key terms: yeah, retention, piece

Well, first of all, there’s obviously a lot of similarities, but I’ll just focus

00:34:53

Key terms: well, first, there’s

And then the core product team also, I’m used to in growth, laying out the entir

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Key terms: then, core, product

What’s really cool about Duolingo, I was just thinking as you were talking, is y

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Key terms: what’s, really, cool

I was actually speaking at Chess

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Key terms: actually, speaking, chess.com

Is that where we’re at? I remember when it beat humans and now it’s just dramati

00:47:22

Key terms: we’re, remember, beat

And not to go down this track too far, but AlphaZero famous for beating the Top

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Key terms: down, track, alphazero

And so when I talked earlier about explore and exploit, a lot of the explore was

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Key terms: talked, earlier, about

So I just encourage taking that first step, just run an A/B test, find a third-p

00:56:27

Key terms: encourage, taking, first

Okay, we’ll make sure none of them watch this

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Key terms: okay, we’ll, make

It’s kind of weird

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Key terms: it’s, kind, weird

It’s the core loop of the product and making that really tight is super importan

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Key terms: it’s, core, loop

And I was really struck by my experience working at some smaller startups or tak

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Key terms: really, struck, experience

I can read experiment results, I can look at the pixels

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Key terms: read, experiment, results

The blue commuter shuttles, like 15-person shuttles, they would essentially driv

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Key terms: blue, commuter, shuttles

No, this is great

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Key terms: great, hope, useful

Yeah, it’s interesting

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Key terms: yeah, it’s, interesting

A lot of these companies that have actually joined have come through relatively

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Key terms: these, companies, actually

Key Concepts

15-person, about, actually, alphazero, also, appreciate, apps, beat, beating, because, blue, bought, break, chess, chess.com

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