How to Build a Product I - Michael Seibel, Steve Huffman, Emmett Shear - Stanford CS183F

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Published 2017-04-19
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.
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  • @El_Diablo_12
    5:10 Justin TV vs Twitch, build for yourself vs built for others 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
  • @connorpeters560
    Between all the various YC videos and Stanford talks, this one ranks in my top 5. Very well spoken guests! It also helps when I am intimately familiar with the products they are referring to.
  • @Zeangjpn
    I found this session to be very dense with knowledge. I took 3 pages of notes. I was averaging two pages of notes for other lectures.
  • @michaelwongso6689
    Main Takeaway 1. When building MVP, get it out AS FAST AS YOU CAN. Thats the only way that you know, whether you are right or wrong. 2. If you proud of your MVP, you are too late. 3. Collect your user activity. 4. If you don't have time to build the analytics tool, use 3rd party software and then just Log the top 5 important activity metrics 5. Always talk to your users first, then build the feature. if possible don't do it backwards. 6. Don't ask for the users on what feature to build. Just listen to their problem and try to solve it.
  • @FPFPV
    Great insights from the creators of my biggest time sinks.
  • @ChengeerLee
    Great talk. Thank you all for your contribution. Priceless. Witty jokes make good vibe)
  • @foulx
    Extremely enlightening class!
  • @rubencanodiaz
    Great interview i learn a lot about how to grow up a producto and lear more from costumers or users
  • @11219tt
    11:50 this was me recently. My last company we were able to build a landing page that said we are going to build this give me your email address and that worked perfectly. This company I’m working with now we tried that and we got zero email sign-ups. It’s because this type of online product needed an actual interface that somebody could play with. One or two or three features. Interesting how one thing works so well And one scenario but doesn’t work at all in another. A constant learning exercise.
  • @arjunpss
    if there are around 350 users for your product, do you think that is a fair number of early users? as in are they enough for initial feedback or shall we push our marketing to get more users instead of focusing entirely on improving the product?