Greylock's Sarah Tavel on what you measure: be intentional, follow roadmap & optimize metric in prod
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Channel: This Week in Startups · 2017 · Education
Watch full episode: https://youtu.be/ZHiOOucyQ8s 500 Startups is a global venture capital seed fund with a network of startup programs headquartered in Silicon Valley, with investments in more than 1,800 technology startups all over the world since its inception in 2010. Jason sits down with Founding Partner Dave McClure to talk about early mistakes, lessons and insights learned, his investment approach, and advice to founders in 2017. Then, Sarah Tavel of Greylock Partners reflects on her early days at Pinterest as she watched the company grow from 30,000 registered users to 100m monthly active users, and distills 10 lessons from her experience there. For full show notes, subscribe to http://thisweekinstartups.com/about/#allsubscribe
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