David Rusenko - How To Find Product Market Fit

David Rusenko details the story of how Weebly developed one of the most popular website creation and hosting sites on the web today. Startup School is YC's free online program for founders. Sign up to access the full curriculum and over $100k in deals! www.startupschool.org/

[@ggadguy]

I think he meant the first line of code was done in 2006, not 2016.

[@RusuTraianCristian]

Yeah, he said it correctly "12 years ago" but the slide was wrong. :D

[@swagv]

How can a CEO quote 2016 as 12 years ago??

[@abdulazizalshehri1995]

If you got 300 million you will know

[@AlexRosier]

People, we're living in the future. It's 2028.

[@albeit1]

@@AlexRosier No, YC is just backcasting to 2018. They issued a memo about this back in 2027, but not everybody saw it.

[@danilkoshuev7075]

I love how he summarizes every question before answering to it ❤️

[@pablos3563]

R u from Kazakhstan?

[@danilkoshuev7075]

No, I’m from Kyrgyzstan

[@pablos3563]

@@danilkoshuev7075 And how is it going after a year? Has found product market fit?

[@brendan2240]

How have only 500K people viewed this in the past 3+ years?
It's literally a competitive advantage to be in the 500K group of people that have viewed this presentation!

[@renoirfariacom]

That explains the high volume of shitty product pitches we see in the majority of tech/startup/innovation conferences.

[@oweisman]

If I had to recommend just one talk about startups to someone, this would be it! This guy is such a natural presenter and so practical. Kudos!

[@abedtau3503]

100% agree

[@ZelenoJabko]

He probably rehearsed for weeks...

[@voice-of-freedom]

Just randomly came accross this and truly the best startup talk I have heard. Great getting away from the theoretical and in to the practical.

[@juniorogunyemi5428]

This is the BEST seminar i've ever watched! thank you

[@SuperKillaki]

This is the best one so far in the series.

[@facutti4213]

If you wanna be an entrepeneur you could literally throw away 5 years of college instead of this masterpiece seminar, no joke.

[@vincentbayliss151]

This is gold! I have been over cooking my products and not focusing properly on the process. Great advice that I'll align too.

[@DRFoodReviews]

One of the best talks I’ve seen on startups. And a clinic on how to present material. I’m just left to wonder how much younger he could have looked in 2006.

[@danieldixon1676]

By far one of the best talks on Product Market Fit. You'll know when you're here when every piece of this talk resonates.

[@AcharyaChanakya108]

This is a brilliant talk!
Cleared up so many things for me.
Thank you David & YC!

[@nonefvnfvnjnjnjevjenjvonej3384]

did you have a successful product though? i don't think so

[@victorsuarez3]

One of the best YC talks ever. So many lessons.

[@naveenrs7460]

I love your explanation and simple slides with awesome data sir!
Thank you for very useful speech!

[@lsdimontenegro5705]

What a smart and humble guy. Much admiration.

[@GarageToolCarWrapCRM]

Most talks about product market fix is vague. Love how detailed this is.

[@user-fn9os7gp4w]

This session is on repeat. David is a genius. A great business man.

[@herval]

This is probably the best video in the entire YC library!

[@El_Diablo_12]

One of the most valuable videos on CZcams right here.

[@IcaroVolera]

Damn, this talk made me feel better about my startup

[@danieldulake8391]

Thank you very much, this is what I’m looking for a long time!
czcams.com/video/gFhXs0CO3Ns/video.html

[@mckayprestwich]

How is it going?

[@ngannguyenkim2599]

Yeah, how is it going?

[@IcaroVolera]

@@ngannguyenkim2599 Closing our seed round. It is going forward

[@xLightcrystalx]

@@IcaroVolera Great job man!

[@Theddyfield]

Awesome! The phrase i loved the most was " Minimum Remarkable Product".

[@mailmekowshik]

The most informative video i have come across, thank you so much!

[@goodbyetube9545]

Really enjoying listening to this talk. Best.

[@hussamalshamaily5441]

Such an insightful talk by David Rusenko. Thank you so much.

[@peterbloomingdale]

Phenomenal! Super informative and straight to the point!

[@derduskenga]

First time to understand the difference between market fit and product market fit. Thank you very much.

[@zeljkapotoku275]

David Rusenko is so great person, giving this great and informative video. Thank you!

[@PraveenKumar-ih9rj]

Simply insightful. Thanks for making this public.

[@pavloivanchyshyn8820]

Very interesting and useful presentation!

[@yuchengliu7497]

The part which resonates with me the most is, we like to say "This is so hard but it's because we are doing hard things". It does not always hold especially on PMF part. If you are feeling every step being hard, it implies you are not doing right. The right feeling is everything should be easy.

[@SineadWalshMansfield]

Thank you for your insight. Such clarity in a nutshell. You are genial !!

[@justindonovan781]

Very thorough lecture. Really impressed

[@yaronbbb]

One of the best product fit session out there!

[@jacob_mp]

This presentation is wonderful, very useful.

[@aaronbirook4367]

This is the best video on YCs CZcams channel. But y’all not paying attention.

[@seobuddy]

Thank you David! So much value in this lecture.

[@nickjerrat]

This was awesome. Thank-you David.

[@robertuy5485]

Very informative video. Thank you for the presentation easy to understand.

[@SarovokTheFallen]

I really enjoyed this talk, really well done, thanks!

[@gustafklimt]

best talk so far. Very informative.

[@TheRedBallz]

Sam Altman's "How to succeed with a Startup" is also incredibly good

[@michaeltucker7608]

He nailed every single part of this. Very impressive.

[@dominicheng3237]

This is so helpful and intense. Full run of the video is more 3-4 hours since this is condensed into 1 as David speaks real fast (common trait of the VC/entrepreneurs)

[@freemanjiang]

The fact that this is free is insane

[@antonycarles1499]

it's good that David repeat the questions from audience, i hardly can't hear their questions

[@DiamondOkoh]

Learnt so much from this video. So much lesson to learn and I am actually through this phase. This is what value looks like

[@niinoi1214]

Very insightful video. This is definitely worth transcribing.

[@mosialive]

This was a great talk. I enjoyed it. Thanks YC!

[@bolimov]

Thanks for putting these great contents on your channel. It feels like in an accelerator.

[@cindybelardo8753]

Thank you for the super helpful insights!

[@henrikcarmel374]

This was very hands-on and helpfull

[@selenale7748]

thank YC & David, it is very helpful

[@ashutoshchauhan8365]

Thank your so much David and y combinator for this knowledge

[@gurkaransingh449]

i literally just fall in love with this guy's thought process, so freakin relatable!

[@ameyapatil1139]

Fantastic information ! Thank you

[@sagarburde7631]

This was awesome. Thank-you David

[@mirzapahlevi4182]

this is great and very helpful for start up and existing companies which needs pivoting because of decliing sales

[@DesignLead]

Cool! Thanks for the great info...

[@richardjerome78]

Best video I’ve seen on the topic.

[@antonioalejandrogonzalezca8691]

Amazing insights

[@SoftwareAndTechnology]

You are awesome. Thanks for the insight.

[@einsteindonascimentojunior440]

What a great lecture!

[@datacenteredleadership9400]

Product market fit is key, even if it’s one simple function that works better than anything else out there. Continuously iterate, building and engaging in unbiased user testing. When there is product market fit, growth will be positive and rapid without any ad spending required.

[@reconf1gur3d63]

R.I.P David. Gone way before your time.

[@photographybya7602]

Engaging speaker, tons of great info.

[@toeskneechestnut]

Great talk, really learn a lot

[@svitlanatrofymenko1208]

Sure useful and interesting!! Thank you!

[@benediktwildoer8384]

great talk. Thank you for sharing this

[@neves69]

THIS IS ABSOLUTE GOLD

[@natashasamuel9346]

Great Business advice.
Keep up the good work.
Thank You,
Natasha Samuel

[@HardyCozen]

What a bright young man.

[@IgorIvanchenkoChinese]

great speaker with great experience!

[@SoufianeDouimia]

Now I understand why most people aren't successful, only 100k views . This CZcams channel is better than Harvard

[@Andrew-es6yt]

1 hour of water

[@ravipatel58]

Really great insights. Any idea if y combinator has market fit video for b2b startups?

[@user-pn4iz7ns1v]

Brilliant talk, brilliant speaker!

[@ethandowie3907]

So much insight in one video

[@kevinkang4427]

Love the terse examples and stories throughout the video.

[@eqmusicgroup3375]

Iolite

[@dzlfiqar]

Cool! Can't wait to watch the talk from gustaf

[@punnyabrata]

That moment when in front of 1000 people you can name and shame the dude who wrote you off in front of a 1000 people and you do that so nonchalantly and casually that you do not even acknowledge the dude's worth. Pure savage! That is success 🏆🏅👑.

[@novaria]

This contains not just one but several actually useful thoughts . Go watch till the end, you won't regret it.

[@KadvaKorp]

Great presentation 👍🏼

[@clarencechanxy]

Super content. Thank you!

[@mpk08540]

Best YC talk!

[@acche-rc]

I wish I can like this video more than once like on Medium

[@iliachigogidze6550]

I'm really curious what they (Weebly) were doing wrong and how they changed that things to achieve product market fit

[@BladeofLight1996]

My new answer for "Who's your favorite entrepreneur?": David Rusenko

[@TheChaussonkiwi]

Insanely great ! Thank you !

[@voltairepabustan]

Thank you for sharing!

[@camillorohe6996]

He points out the importance of Product Market Fit very well. What I dislike is he seems to present people a recipe how to get there, meaning he has found the truth to the problem of Product Market fit. It is way more nuanced & complicated than to simply score high on NPS. Michael Seibel's way of cleaning up the misconceptions people have on founding a company is much more of a guidance, at least for me. Nonetheless great insights by Rusenko (to keep it short).

[@walkofftheplanet]

Loved this❤️

[@akhilsankar]

David is fantastic.

[@withsoleil]

Thank you!

[@TamTran-bq2di]

Great video!

[@columnsai]

This talk is really good.

[@oliverweldner8704]

I would be interested in how to acquiring customers. This is the ultimate challenge. You can have the best and the worst product but you need customers to develop it into something valuable!

[@HanisaMohamed]

You recruit them manually as paul graham has said

[@buchbakhsh]

35:10 "Listen to the problems but don't ignore their solutions!" Don't ignore! Listen to their solutions to better understand their problem.

[@WisdomHubSara]

This one was a great one

[@sergiofernandes5315]

Great content!

[@DrRayChen]

Very insightful

[@shawnjacobsen4035]

crazy amounts of info in this

[@valberazevedo3064]

I really love this video