5min chapter

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship cover image

363: Skyflow: Lessons on Launching a New SaaS Product Category - with Anshu Sharma

The SaaS Podcast - SaaS, Startups, Growth Hacking & Entrepreneurship

CHAPTER

How to Start a New Category and Store Your Product

When you're building something fundamentally architecturally new, there is nothing for you to rely on. And so we can't solve large technical problems or even large business problems sometimes like building an electric car without having a different paradigm. Uber, Airbnb, these kind of companies don't require you to have a PhD in economics to understand why they would or would not work. It's best to just build it and see if it works. Sam Altman himself has said he couldn't have built OpenAI using his own advice at YC. So MongoDB coming back, even today, 95% of the world has no idea what MongoDB is. They still can't articulate why it's different from

00:00

Get the Snipd
podcast app

Unlock the knowledge in podcasts with the podcast player of the future.
App store bannerPlay store banner

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode

Save any
moment

Hear something you like? Tap your headphones to save it with AI-generated key takeaways

Share
& Export

Send highlights to Twitter, WhatsApp or export them to Notion, Readwise & more

AI-powered
podcast player

Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features

Discover
highlights

Listen to the best highlights from the podcasts you love and dive into the full episode