Product | Scaling Your Startup S2 E5 with Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra & Fitbod’s Jesse Venticique | E1214

This Week in Startups

Jason Calacanis

Technology

4.2 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 15 May 2021

⏱️ 53 minutes

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This episode reveals the product strategies of two of Jason's high-performing portfolio companies, Superhuman & Fitbod. First, Superhuman's Founder & CEO Rahul Vohra shares his 7 principles for improving products with game design (01:40), then Fitbod's CO-founder and Product Head Jesse Venticique describes how to optimize your product hook (20:08), and to wrap up, Jason brings the two together for a Q&A session (36:44). Pod Notes: http://bit.ly/e1214tnotes

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody. Welcome to this week in startups. We've got an amazing show for you.
0:04.0	Two products. I was lucky enough to invest in superhuman and fit bod have mastered the art of
0:10.2	making elegant products that delight users. And today, two of the founders Raoul and Jesse are
0:16.5	going to give you their secrets. And they're going to pay it forward and get your pen and paper.
0:21.7	And you're going to want to watch this episode at least twice, probably three times. You're going
0:24.9	to want to get your team. You're going to order in some Uber Eats or get a Zoom call going. And you
0:29.1	going to want to share this episode with your entire team and start a dialogue internally
0:33.9	about how to make great products. Because at the end of the day, great product wins every
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1:42.1	have been lucky enough to invest in twice. Rahul from Superhuman. Take it away Rahul.
1:46.7	Awesome. Thank you Jason. Hello everybody. Like he said, my name's Rahul. I'm the founder and
1:52.5	CEO of Superhuman where we build the fastest email experience in the world. Our customers get
1:58.8	through their inbox twice as fast as before. Reply to their important email sooner and see
2:04.6	inbox zero for the first time in years. Now Superhuman is productivity software but I'm really a
2:12.8	gamer at heart and I'm going to share how effective it can be to apply game design to business
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