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SourceThe Long Game · Episode 18

1:12:40

The turning point

Context
Host You said year two almost broke the company. What happened?
Hook
Priya We were shipping something every single week, and growth was flat.
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Priya Which, honestly, I could talk about for an hour, but —
Idea
Priya So we cut the roadmap in half and only kept what customers paid for.
Payoff
Priya We stopped doing more. We did what mattered. Revenue doubled that year.

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