Menu
Sign In Search Podcasts Libraries Charts People & Topics Add Podcast API Blog Pricing

Rahul Vohra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
739 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Remember, you have the right not to serve.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

I'm going to say that again.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

You have the right not to serve any customer.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Founders, forget this.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

So people would sign up and say, and we used to have a survey.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

We'd be like, what mobile phone do you have?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

They'd say Android.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And I said, well, you can't have superhuman.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And people get confused, like, why?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Isn't it my decision whether or not I buy?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And I'm like, no, it's my decision whether or not I sell.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Yeah, it's interesting how these sort of different things, the dots connect.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It's like one, by asking for money up front, it's sort of like, okay, I'm committed to going through this process with you.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

By having a human there, I am going to walk through this sort of complicated set of use cases and be able to personalize towards like an aha moment that that drives really high retention, it drives ARR growth.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

But this piece about the net promoters is a really interesting one, which is if I got through all of that, I'm probably going to tell my friends about it.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

But not just because it was a great experience, but because it was different, that it was contrarian or different from what other people are doing.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It seems like almost like by making very focused, strange decisions that kind of fit together, there's something new there or something.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

it wasn't being strange or different for the sake of it.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

I genuinely thought all of these things were the right thing to do for their own reasons.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

The market doesn't care.