Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 432
Nov 20, 2019 · 11 min
““Everyone's always looking for the hack - what's the channel that will unlock something big? But every time we looked for a reason we weren't growing, it always came back to the basics –– selection, delivery quality, pricing. That's it. Always come back to first principles. Whenever we made a mistake, we forgot this.” – Micah Moreau (DoorDash, VP of Growth) (This is a special edition of my newsletter — the first in a series of posts…”
Lenny’s Podcast74 min
Yuriy Timen · Sep 1, 2022
Key learnings- Give every channel a real test before judging it; many teams wrongly conclude YouTube or other tactics don't work because they…
- Virality works best when the product has inherent network effects, where utility grows with more users, rather than trying to…
- Treat SEO as a 3-month time-boxed experiment, favoring angles with a unique editorial, programmatic, or data advantage, and buy a…
Lenny’s Newsletter · Free post♥ 85
Dec 9, 2021 · 10 min
This excerpt from Andrew Chen's book argues that networked products should first build a small, self-sustaining 'atomic network' before expanding. The atomic network is the smallest unit that can stand on its own, and…