Aatum Desai

doing business strategy @productboard

[mayin @MayinJoshi]

Mayin Poker has found PMF.

It is the highest-density network of 200+ talented and fun-to-be-around people in San Francisco.

Founders, engineers, investors, marketers, consultants, salespeople - everyone.

I try to meet personally w/ every new player to curate the best tables. People make friends here not peers.

8-person, low-stakes, every Friday night. Multiple locations hosting throughout the city now.

You should probably sign-up @ mayinpoker (dot) com.

PS - If you're a startup or VC firm w/ office space that can host & or sponsor, DM me!

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@MayinJoshi Have met many amazing folks through this. Definitely worth signing up

[Mayank @mayonkeyy]

Code review benchmark from @FactoryAI

Nobody ever checks what the best model for their agent would be but still pay a premium for the frontier just bc it's newer. SquareDiff lets you rapidly personalize your harness for any model you try

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

stop spending money on Claude Code.

Chipotle's support bot is free:

[Saksham @sxmawl]

Founders after they find out ARR is not 12 times MRR

[Alex Bouaziz @Bouazizalex]

It's always the product's fault.

Everything in your company exists because the product is not good enough:

- If you need 10 minutes to explain it, it's a UI problem.
- If you need 10 sales calls, it's a value-prop problem.
- If you need a customer support team, it's a UX problem.

The ideal product would not need anything around it.
All business departments are patches for deficiencies:

- Ops are required when customers fail to get the value out of the product.
- A help center is needed when the interface fails to be self-explanatory.
- An onboarding process when value is not delivered automatically.

Nothing will save you from having a bad product. Even if you're a great salesperson and manage to sell it over and over again, you'll experience churn. And it's customer retention that makes a business sustainable.

Why would someone eat at a restaurant whose food they hated the first time?

A company dies when it runs out of cash. That’s the last stop. Getting there means your business failed to do what a business is intended to do.

Earning a profit is proof of service; proof that you are solving a problem for customers in the best way offered. And if you're not ultimately making a profit, it means the product is not good enough.

[mayin @MayinJoshi]

San Francisco grossly underrates business people that could 3x their ARR if they just listened.

The others outside of SF are so far behind of the latest tech it’s unimaginable.

There are people that haven’t even heard of excel.

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@pierreeliottlal @MayinJoshi

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

Guess I'm not eating food tonight

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@HarryStebbings @MayinJoshi is unstable mentally

[Hubert Palan @hpalan]

The way product makers work is about to change forever.

Today we're publicly launching Productboard Spark ⚡

The best AI agent for Product people.

🧵 Here's why this matters:

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@KevinSzabo14 because they shipped faster than everybody else

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@ick_real We'll see what happens

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@sam_d_1995 congestrification

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@JaneschAndreas Tell them what customer # they are

[sluj @smashdirt]

this widget really puts into perspective how short a year actually is

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

The cost of a late answer is often higher than the cost of an imperfect one.

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@1Umairshaikh being broke

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@UiSavior Plot distribution of order quantity. Drop off from 1 to 2 to 3 should be massive. To order 2 fries, B requires 2 clicks, A requires 1 click. B becomes more click efficient 4+ fries. But bro, who is ordering 4+ fries?

[Aatum Desai @AatumDesai]

@stijnnoorman good