How to Find Product Market Fit - Stanford CS183F: Startup School
What it is
Segment co-founder and CEO Peter Reinhardt recounts how his company found product-market fit, including how a product grew out of a small feature of another. It is a lecture from Stanford's Startup School course.
Why Hacker News recommends it
HN founders recommend it as a must-watch on recognizing real product-market fit and avoiding solutions in search of problems.
- 4 people recommended it
- 3 different months
- 2 strong recommendations
- first 2018, last 2024
What HN commenters said
“You and your team should watch this 3 times right now”
How a new product grew from a small feature of another.
dawie, 2018-04 · Strong recommendation · in “Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?”
“Peter Reinhardt from Segment has a must-watch talk for anyone interested in this topic”
Segment founder's talk on recognizing real product-market fit
ed, 2024-08 · Strong recommendation · in “Superhuman built an engine to find product market fit (2018)”
“Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit.”
Segment CEO on their journey to product market fit.
hhw3h, 2018-04 · Recommendation · in “Ask HN: My startup has basically failed. What now?”
“I like this talk really much.”
Peter Reinhardt on product-market fit and Segment's history
thojest, 2020-11 · Recommendation · in “Twilio wraps $3.2B purchase of Segment after warp speed courtship”
Excerpts from Hacker News comments, linked to the originals. Summaries and labels were written by a language model from those comments.
Topics: product market fit, segment, startup school, founders, peter reinhardt
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