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
00:14:46
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
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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
01:02:17
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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