In the first of four lectures on How to Build a Product, Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator, interviews Steve Huffman and Emmett Shear on how they built their products as founder-CEO's of Reddit and Twitch, respectively.
In the first of four lectures on How to Build a Product, Michael Seibel, CEO of Y Combinator, interviews Steve Huffman and Emmett Shear on how they built their products as founder-CEO's of Reddit and Twitch, respectively.
10:43 Minimum remarkable product
16:45 Why you need metrics as a baseline
17:56 Log the 5-7 most important metrics to your business
22:10 Why you should fix one issue at a time
24:47 Talk to users to HAVE product ideas, not the other way around
25:40 Consensus building after talking to users
30:40 Emmett on talking to users
33:23 Looking at metrics, explaining why your metrics improved
37:30 Solving seemingly conflicting customer problems
39:00 Invert your assumptions, question them
42:00 Product market fit
46:20 How Emmett found Twitch's most important customers