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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
Where to find Dan Siroker
Dan Siroker on X
Dan Siroker on Linkedin
Where to find Matt Parker:
Matt Parker on X
Matt’s newsletter on Substack
Matt Parker on Linkedin
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