Lenny Distilled

Tie unfamiliar concepts to familiar patterns

Growth → Activation & Onboarding

So I talked about using drivers to sell GoPay. Before that, one thing that we did was to actually take someone's virtual account number and put it onto a picture of a credit card. You know what a credit card is, that's familiar to you. A lot of people didn't know what a digital wallet was.

Crystal WidjajaHow to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth
Supporting

I think the cool thing about GPTs is you can package down like, 'Here's this one very specific problem that AI can solve for you and do it really well,' and I can share that experience with you and now you can go and try that GPT, have it actually solve the problem and be like, 'Wow, it did this thing for me. I should probably spend the time to investigate these five other problems that I have to see if AI can also be a solution to those.'

Logan KilpatrickInside OpenAI
Supporting

One thing I've noticed among founders and just people in general is they tend to write like a PR person and not like a human... how do your customers or your users describe your product to other people?

Ryan HooverA better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of "Shape Up")
Supporting

We actually looked at the food that their friends had purchased and used that as a data set of, 'Hey, here's food that Lenny purchased and liked. Maybe you would like it too.' And so that was one way to hack the trust factor.

Crystal WidjajaHow to scrappily hire for, measure, and unlock growth