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Who is Lenny Rachitsky: Background, Newsletter, Podcast, and More

Userpilot

“Localmind” experienced steady growth until Airbnb made an acquisition offer in 2012, which Lenny accepted. Following the acquisition, he transitioned from engineering to the product team , marking a pivotal moment in his career.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. What : Run Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

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Customer Development Guide For Product Managers

The Product Coalition

And Google Wave is a universal communication platform that appeared in 2010 and was closed in 2012, as nobody could understand what it was or how to use it. The authors relied on their intuition or professionalism, and didn’t account for the most important factor in product creation?—?the the product/market fit.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. product, marketing, engineering, data science, design, content, and finance. What : Run Facebook, Google, Twitter, etc.

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The art of the pivot, part 2: How, why, and when to pivot

Lenny Rachitsky

As Dalton Caldwell (Managing Director at Y Combinator), in his legendary talk on pivoting points out, pivoting is all about opportunity cost: “[Pivoting] gets more shots on goal to try to find this elusive thing [called product-market fit]. million in venture capital investment [that we raised].

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Why Most Companies Fail At Moving Up or Down Market

Brian Balfour

The difference between these two are not the common mantras of build a great product, product market fit is the only thing that matters, or growth hacking. When you strip away all the outer layers, they all have essentially the same core product — a tool that lets you send and automate emails to your customers and audience.

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Reflecting on the Intercom journey – Karen Peacock and Des Traynor in conversation

Intercom, Inc.

We came out of private beta on January 27th, 2012, where we announced that we’d raised a million dollars. And it’s never an exciting feature, it’s not a differentiator. We incorporated in San Francisco on August 15th, 2011, I think. I’ll tell you the most embarrassing one I had.