Episode 3
The Startup Wayback Machine
Jake & JZ · Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
November 14, 202459m 36s
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Show Notes
This week on episode 3 of Jake & JZ, we talked about:
- The Seinfeld Moviefone episode (”Why don’t you just tell me what the product does?”)
- The Startup Wayback Machine (continued!), our technique for learning from successful companies in their early days
- Websites through the years, including Uber in 2011, iPhone in 2007, Slack in 2014–2017
- Solving one problem well before you try to solve a bunch of problems
- A great LinkedIn post from Kushal Byatnal (founder of Character portfolio company Extend) about selling your product before you build it
- A fun tabletop analog game called KLASK (check out this epic game on YouTube)
- A great movie: The Eagle Huntress
- And much more
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Chapters
00:00 Seinfeld and "Moviefone"
05:13 The Wayback Machine
09:09 Wayback: Uber
18:01 Wayback: iPhone
25:42 Wayback: Slack