Is it ZAPPier or ZAPEier... ANSWERED! Balaji was right (again), Wall Street says PLGeez, and more...
👋 Hey, Ruchin here! Welcome to this week’s edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG)
Subscribe to get this newsletter every week👇 Before we jump into our Thursday newsletter, we wanted to express our deep gratitude to the Top of the Lyne subscriber family for supporting our Product Hunt launch! 🙏🏻 We finished the day at #2, growing our subscriber base ~2x over the last 2 days! 🚀 To our new subscribers - Welcome! 👋🏻 Every Tuesday, we publish a deep dive on a popular PLG business’ go-to-market function. And every Thursday, we summarize the hottest PLG news of the week in our weekly newsletter! Let’s dive right in… Into the Twitterverse 🐦🌌
7 years ago, @balajis was my professor at Stanford.
He developed an insight nearly a decade ago which looks more obvious by the day.
"Unlocking individual potential is the key to unlocking the world's potential."
This is playing out in real time across every industry. Here’s one of our favorite articles ❤️ on the power of the individual by Packy McCormick!
Wedge: A strategy to win a large market by starting small.
In this week's post, I share why, when, and how to pick your wedge, with help from @ataussig @ajay_bcv @annimaniac @BryanOffutt @lpolovets @mduboe @npilosof @saarsaar and @sarahtavel
Growth Stories 🚀When one thinks PLG, Retool is without doubt one of the most exciting companies that comes to mind! Here's how the company grew to a near $1B valuation by thinking "developer-first"
The Airtable story is out on our Spotify channel! Tune in and listen to the GTM strategies powering Airtable’s campaign for the spreadsheet throne 👑 Fundraising, Venture Capital and Exits 🤑
Patience is a virtue. We believe it’s also smart business.
The traditional 10-year VC fund cycle no longer makes sense for today’s world, or tomorrow’s founders.
Introducing The Sequoia Fund.
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Today is the day…
We’re excited to announce that @fellowapp has raised $24M in Series A Funding 🎉
Led by @craft_ventures (@lainypainter @DavidSacks), @inovia @felicis @GarageCapital, Formentera and SVB.
We’re super excited about what this means for the company...👇 Launches, events, and releases
We're thrilled to share the @loomSDK is now generally available to the public!
@Netlify, @Upwork & @InVisionApp are already using the SDK to unlock async video at scale. And so can you 🙌
Interested in building with our SDK? Get your API keys today: loom.com/sdk
Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚Did you also miss SaaStr 2021 🥲? Matt Harney to the rescue! Matt summarizes all the PLG discussions (there were quite a few and we’re not surprised 🤭) from the event 👇🏻 6 Product Led Growth Sessions From SaaStr Annual 2021 Some housekeeping… Is your mailbox trying to keep our content away from you! 💔 What can you do about it? Mark this email as ‘not spam’ 😱 or move it from your promotions to the primary folder 👉🏻 It’s very easy! Thanks again, and please tell a few friends if you feel like it. If you liked this post from Top of the Lyne, why not share it? |
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Retool: Saving developers from internal tools since 2017 😇
Tuesday, October 26, 2021
In a world desperately in the need of developers, why would you waste their time on internal tools?
Is PLG freemium rebranded? Notion at $10B, Microsoft acquires Ally, and more...
Monday, October 25, 2021
Welcome to this week's edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG) The outcome we're shooting for is
Notion: the all-in-one productivity tool
Monday, October 25, 2021
the GTM strategy that packaged and sold the infinite possibilities of Notion's 'Lego blocks' to 20M+ users 🤯 and raised the PLG giant to decacorn-ship 💰
Can non-SaaS be PLG? Gitlab goes public, Stripe acquires Recko, and more...
Monday, October 25, 2021
Welcome to this week's edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG) The outcome we're shooting for is
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