Jan 21
Why Your Free Users Are Your Real Growth Engine – Cem Kansu, Duolingo CPO
On the podcast, I talk with Cem about the premium trap many apps fall into, why free trials work even for freemium products, and how ‘try for $0.00’ actually outperforms ‘try for free’.Top Takeaways:💡 Protect the free moat — always Short-term revenue tricks like paywalling free ... Show More
1h 5m
Jan 7
How a Single Paywall Experiment Generated $50M – Jeff Morris, Chapter One, Ex-Tinder
On the podcast, I talk with Jeff about Tinder's $50 million paywall win. Why now is such a great time to build apps, and how hard paywalls can mislead you about product-market fit.Top Takeaways:💡 Focus on Product-Market Fit First Before jumping into monetization, ensure your pro ... Show More
53m 21s
Dec 24
Creative Misfires, False Positives, and Meta's Auction Flaws — Alper Taner, Stealth-Mode App Studio
On the podcast, I talk with Alper about the competitive advantage of ignoring (some) best practices, the risk of drawing false conclusions when researching competitor ads, and why poor metrics are just facts until proven problematic.Top Takeaways:📊 Challenge Best Practices Test ... Show More
1h 3m
Jan 2023
Building your product strategy stack | Ravi Mehta (Tinder, Facebook, Tripadvisor, Outpace)
<p>Ravi was previously CPO at Tinder, Product Director at Facebook, and VP of Product at Tripadvisor. Currently, he’s co-founder and CEO of Outpace, a coaching platform designed to help people reach their professional goals. In today’s podcast, we dive deep into Ravi’s product st ... Show More
1h 21m
Sep 2016
20VC: Do VC's Really Hustle Enough? The Takeaways From Watching Twitter Scale From 30 to 2,500 & Why Chris Sacca Is Like Yoda with Ryan Sarver, Partner @ Redpoint
<p><a href="https://twitter.com/rsarver">Ryan Sarver</a> is a Partner @ <a href="http://www.redpoint.com/">Redpoint</a> where he focuses on early stage consumer startups. He sits on the board at Luxe, where he led the seed and A rounds, and was an early investor in Memoir. Prior ... Show More
25m 59s
Apr 2024
Twitter’s former Head of Product opens up: being fired, meeting Elon, changing stagnant culture, building consumer product, more | Kayvon Beykpour
<p><strong>Kayvon Beykpour</strong> was the longest-serving head of product at Twitter and was GM of Twitter’s consumer division until the platform was acquired by Elon Musk. He originally joined Twitter in 2015 through the acquisition of his company, Periscope, the largest live ... Show More
1h 35m
Oct 2022
Humanizing product development | Adriel Frederick (Reddit, Lyft, Facebook)
<p>Adriel Frederick is VP of Product Management at Reddit X, where he helps incubate and scale new products. He is a former Product Lead at Facebook, as well as a former PM and Director of Product at Lyft. In today’s episode, we focus on what it takes to become a better product l ... Show More
1h 7m
Our guest today is Ryan Jones, long-time indie developer of Weather Line and Flighty. Before going full-time on his apps in 2019, Ryan spent time in operations at Apple and as Entrepreneur-in-Residence at McGarrah Jessee, a full-service product marketing agency.
In this episode, you’ll hear about:
(3:53) Ryan’s background in mechanical engineering and th ... Show More
<p>“<em>La finalité c’est le Pourquoi tu es là. Si demain tu disparais, est-ce que tu vas manquer à quelqu’un ? </em>”</p>
<p><strong>Ce nouvel épisode du Panier est un peu particulier. </strong>C’est son invité, <a href="https://fr.linkedin.com/in/arielwalker"><u>Ariel Walker</u ... Show More
