She was completely manual. She was the one behind the email address posing as the AI, but doing it herself.
A framework for finding product-market fit
April 11, 2024
Featuring: Todd Jackson (Partner, First Round Capital)
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Stop talking to customers when their answers become predictable
If you talk to enough people and you can predict 70 to 80% of what the next person is going to say to you, because you've just talked to so many people and you've heard the pattern so clearly, that's when you've talked to enough people.
Build now for the AI capabilities of tomorrow
Finding product-market fit is the single most important thing that your startup does in the first three years, and it's just underexplored and it's just underexplained as a topic.
Extreme product-market fit is a state of widespread demand for a product that satisfies a critical need and crucially can be delivered repeatably and efficiently to each customer.
Real commitment shows through payment, not promises
You don't want to get friend-zoned by your customers, where your customers like you, but they don't love you and they don't need you.
Unit economics are the real PMF test
You see a lot of startups kind of do this. They're basically with their products, giving away $2 for $1 and it gets them pretty far. But that's not real product-market fit.