Alexandra Zatarain,
Eight Sleep
Using Your Mission to Find Your Customer
Product-market fit is a journey. Knowing your audience and mission will help you on your way.
When Honeycomb is interviewing a candidate for a software engineering job, co-founder and CEO Christine Yen focuses on their ability to collaborate and solve problems as much as on their raw coding chops. Especially in an early-stage startup, she emphasizes, people who can make proactive decisions to maximize the user experience are more impactful than people who can perfectly execute a discrete task.