Getting to Product-Market Fit [Entire Talk]
Culture
Product-market fit is a journey. Knowing your audience and mission will help you on your way.
Duration
49:33
Part of Series
Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
Season
Season 23
Episode
8
Alexandra Zatarain is the co-founder and VP of brand and marketing of Eight Sleep, the world’s first sleep fitness company. A marketer and brand-builder, Zatarain has built the Eight Sleep brand and scaled the company’s revenue from $0 to current state. Eight Sleep was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2018 and was recognized two years in a row as a TIME Best Invention of the Year. In this conversation with Stanford adjunct lecturer Ravi Belani, Zatarain digs deep into the process of finding product-market fit, using examples from Eight Sleep’s struggles and successes.
Video clips from: Getting to Product-Market Fit [Entire Talk]
- 3:37A brand is a point of view. Your target customers resonate with that point of view.
- 49:33Product-market fit is a journey. Knowing your audience and mission will help you on your way.
- 3:02To find out if you have the right price point and messaging strategy, put your product out to the wild.
- 2:07To build a strong brand, you can’t be all things to all people.
- 3:18Don’t make decisions about your business based on your own view of the world. Do your research.
- 1:27Product-market fit feels like being pulled up a mountain, instead of pushing a boulder up it.