Episode 020: Demo Perfection and the Pitfalls of Falling Out of Love With Your Company
Stretch Four Podcast · Matthew Parker and Dan Siroker
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Show Notes
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Demo Perfection and the Pitfalls of Falling Out of Love With Your Company" - Insights from Dan Siroker, CEO and Founder of rewind.ai, on building self-serve products and navigating the challenges of being a founder.
Outline
* Introduction to episode and guest, Dan Siroker
* Dan's background - started at Google and became director of analytics for Barack Obama's 2008 campaign
* How that experience led to the founding of Optimizely, a product that makes A/B testing easy for anyone
* Lessons learned from Y Combinator - the importance of building something people want and empathizing with customers
* Dan's experience with burnout and falling out of love with his business at Optimizely
* The impact of minimizing decisions and wearing the same black V-neck T-shirt every day
* Dan's move to Denver and the differences between living there and Silicon Valley
* Dan's current venture, Rewind AI, and the importance of storytelling and lowering friction in product demos
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* Dan Siroker on Linkedin
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* Matt Parker on Linkedin
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