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Shaan Puri

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
1087 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And now you're in charge.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And you've got peak energy.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And I'm talking to you, and we both are like, dude, we've had so many ideas of how we could turn this business from X to Y. This is going to be great.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And then what happens?

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

So you lose a third of your traffic on your brilliant name change.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Okay, next.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Okay.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And you guys were pretty loud about the acquisition, which also invites competition, right?

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I tried telling you this, but like, you know, everybody wanted to pound their chest.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Natural, honestly.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Like, and I get it.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

There's actually an upside to it too, right?

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

I think the month we announced that, to be fair, the two months after we announced the acquisition, it was actually peak growth because like a lot of people went and checked it out and realized like, wow, there's a reason why all these people use this service.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

There's a reason why there's a high repeat rate of this service is probably pretty good.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

So it did initially cause a burst, but it also created, you know, it emboldened the existing competitors to go harder and it created, you know, 10 new competitors.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Yep.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Right.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

And our customer base was not super well-funded AI companies or something like that where we're

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

you know, spending was, they're just spending, you know, sloshing money around.

My First Million
When everything works, you learn the wrong lessons

Like we help real businesses.