Laura Schaffer

Bad friction is bad, and good friction is good. There's no such thing as it being simple. It's just all friction is bad.

Developers almost never look at your marketing website at all. They go straight to your signup flow.

If your service goes down, that's their responsibility. If the pager wakes up someone because the service they bought from you goes down, that's on them.

If it's not embarrassing, you've gone too far. Got to be embarrassing. The first thing, that was embarrassing.

If it's not embarrassing, you've gone too far. Got to be embarrassing. The first thing, that was embarrassing.

Your superpower is in really pulling those insights in and bringing them to life, staying close to the customer. There's not a single leader or executive that isn't going to be stoked to hear about valuable customer insights that highlight problems they might not be seeing.

Roughly 80% of the times, our hypotheses and the things that we believe will be true are wrong.

The psyche of the user is so, so critical. That's just as important as understanding your product and the broader market you're applying to and all those things.