Jeff Whitlock 🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @JeffreyWhitlock
CEO at @GrainHQ. medium.com/@jeff_whitlock Provo, UT Joined October 2009-
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A bias for action is great... when guided by a sound strategy.
.@taylorswift13 is a legend. An inspiration to creators everywhere.
For all you readers out there who sub-vocalize, try @SpeechifyAI. Using it has massively unlocked my reading speed.
Do VCs even do competitor diligence anymore?
The best texts to wake up to: positive @GrainHQ feedback from a customer.
Being great at product does not make you great at building a business. Product-market fit is the core of any successful business. But strong product-market fit often won't create a good business without model-market-channel fit.
One of the hardest things about being a founder: Having a vision of what can and should be while being clear-eyed about how things actually are.
What we've learned from X: in the name of free speech, spam wins...
A PM is usually only as good as the designer(s) they work with.
We like averages because they are a clean and tidy way to summarize data, but they are often not an accurate summary for a variety of different circumstances in reality.
Great life lesson from surfing: When the wave has formed, it's too late to catch it.
Designing/building a pricing, product-marketing, and upgrade system is some of the most painful product work 🤣
Any great new tools out there that are helping to improve your effectiveness?
Hot take: @evernote is sneakily becoming the best personal notes app again, and I'm glad I never abandoned it for Notion or Notes. Why is this happening? Not a hot take: because they started listening to their customers again.
Grain Live Sales Call Review w/ Mike Heller & Jeff Whitlock x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
The house can force the sale of TikTok in days but can't pass The Sunshine Protection Act in 2 years. No wonder it has such a low approval rating, particularly from younger Americans. @CurtisUT
Often, process is used to address problems caused by low performers.
Loss aversion and a scarcity mindset: the two biggest reasons why I've made poor decisions as a leader.
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This is a pretty profound and slightly discouraging chart in the latest from @ttunguz I had thought the # of M&A deals in software must have gone up the past decade. I thought it had. But it hasn't. Only the dollar volume has really. Deal count is basically flat at < 60…
and yes if you're doing it purely for fun/creative expression, absolutely do so. i have found tho lots of people disingenuously justifying sunk cost on an unsuccessful podcast intended to be monetized as "worth it because it's fun"
sorry missed an important caveat. all of the above OR "unless you've found a truly untapped niche & you're willing to be in the game for 5+ years".
@kevinleeme there is bias inferred in the question. By the time a business is at $1mm, there is a ton of data on its likelihood to get to $10mm. No one on this thread would pick a dog at $1mm and try to get it to $10mm. There is much less data at $0
Well, Cox seems to have a little bit of a lead in polling. #utpol
Just saying, if the convention had used #RankedChoiceVoting, y’all would’ve been home hours ago. #utpol
@miketangoromeo @UtahGOP Fair correction. I didn't think the entire convention used it in 2001.
@jaldendaniels @UtahGOP Josh, how many times do I have to tell you that we first used ranked-choice voting in the Utah Republican conventions in 2001, not 2004. Not a proud moment for me, your mentor. All those wasted hours.😍
@JeffreyWhitlock How do you define and create strategy? I've seen people use 'strategy' for 'important decision' which makes it much less effective. :)
Some wisdom for your AM feed from @JeffreyWhitlock. I’ve come face to face with this as founders choose to ignore competition in their strategy. The market adapts too fast for you to ever feel content. One thing that never changes, absolute hustle. linkedin.com/posts/jeff-whi…
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The thing about being a mom and a CEO have in common? I never have enough time to go pee.