Are You Embarrassed by Your First Version?

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Hoffman's advice applies most to startups that are creating new markets, and especially to startups that have network effects. For a startup like superhuman, in an existing market, exactly where the alternative product is, right now, the bar is very different. Any sufficiently hard productivity tool will take many, many years to build. But back to the reed hoffman quotes, you know, i'm still embarrassed to day by many aspects of superhuman and i probably always will be.

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We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Superhuman, the red hot email productivity app which just announced their $33m Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. While originally intended as an LP episode, we felt Superhuman would provide the perfect bookend to our “modern enterprise productivity trilogy” following our Zoom and Slack episodes. We hope you enjoy the conversation with Rahul as much as we did, and we’ll see you later this summer for Season 5!

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