Episode description

On this episode of the Traction podcast, host Lloyed Lobo of Boast.AI features a talk by Sarah Tavel, General Partner at Benchmark from the IRL Traction Conference in Vancouver.

Sarah started her career at Bessemer Venture Partners, and invested in Pinterest when it was a small five person company with about 30,000 registered users. She loved the company so much that she joined Pinterest to become their first product manager. Sarah led product at Pinterest through a period of hyper-growth, and when she left the company they had 100 million monthly active users. 

In this session, Sarah shares the framework to build iconic businesses covering:

• Hierarchy of engagement
• Growing engaged users
• Retaining users once you've brought them in
• Building mounting loss and accruing benefits into your product
• Making your product self-perpetuating with virtuous loops

Learn more at https://tractionconf.io

Connect with Sarah Tavel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahtavel/

Learn more about Benchmark at http://www.benchmark.com/

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