198K views · May 17, 2017 · 48:11 · 4 HN recommenders · 6 mentions · discussed 2018–2024
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 points people here: HN founders recommend it as a must-watch on recognizing real product-market fit and avoiding solutions in search of problems.
“Peter Reinhardt from Segment has a must-watch talk for anyone interested in this topic”HN comment, 2024
“You and your team should watch this 3 times right now”
How a new product grew from a small feature of another.
You and your team should watch this 3 times right now: this video It’s about finding product market fit after a few different products. It talks about how their new successful product (150 staff) is a small feature from one of their other products and how they scaled that! Do it!
“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
Having followed this exact playbook to validate several products I can confidently say this will give you false positives and the only reliable way to determine when you have PMF is: accidentally get PMF on something so that you know what it feels like (it’s unmistakeable). Peter Reinhardt from Segment has a must-watch talk for anyone interested in this topic this video
“Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit.”
Segment CEO on their journey to product market fit.
Jason Lemkin recommends giving it 24 months to start a B2B SaaS. B2B SaaS is a long road despite the big splashes sometimes seen like Slack or Intercom. link Also watch the CEO of Segment talk about their journey to product market fit. this video
“I like this talk really much.”
Peter Reinhardt on product-market fit and Segment's history
For those interested in Segment, this is a talk of Peter Reinhardt about Product Market Fit and a bit of the history behind Segment. this video I like this talk really much.
Segment CEO on why anyone pays for a tiny open source library.
There's also the "open-core model"[^1]. From the Wikipedia description: > The open-core model is a business model for the monetization of commercially produced open-source software. Coined by Andrew Lampitt in 2008,[1] the open-core model primarily involves offering a "core" or feature-limited version of a software product as free and open-source software, while offering "commercial" versions or add-ons as proprietary software.[2][3] Here's GitLab's CEO[^2] talking about "Offering an on-prem / self-managed version of your software" [^3] Here's a timestamped video titled "E05 Pioneering version control for data science with Pachyderm co-founder and CEO Joe Doliner" [^4], where Pachyderm's CEO[^5] addresses the business model. Here's a timestamped video, titled "How to Find Product Market Fit" , of Peter Reinhardt[^6], where he answers the question of "why would someone pay anything for an open source library that's 580 lines of code.."[^7]. There's a blog post detailing this, too[^8]. There are several degrees of what is open-source and what is not, and different ways to build a business around that. [^1]: link [^2]: link [^3]: link [^4]: link [^5]: link [^6]: link [^7]: this video [^8]: link
“See Peter Reinhardts talk about product/market fit”
Cautions against building solutions looking for a problem
The first approach sounds solid but it's the kind of thinking that very easily leads you towards building a solution looking for a problem. See Peter Reinhardts talk about product/market fit: this video
