Andreessen Horowitz

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In this episode, a16z partner Seema Amble talks with co-founder and CEO of Mercury Immad Akhund about the idea of a minimum delightful product in fintech, doing the spreadsheet math on unit economics early on, and how to compete in a category already filled with incumbents. When I first started in 2006, everything was really bad.

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incumbents founder leadership advice 91

Y Combinator

MAY 1, 2019

I’ve definitely tried to draw out this narrative into a bunch of videos, but the basic story is that a friend of mine, who’s still a really great friend of mine who lives in New York turned me on to, he’s an Android developer, or mobile developer at large now. He’s just doing everything.

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peer-to-peer advice creativity opportunity 44

Y Combinator

MAY 8, 2019

15:05 – Providing advice as content vs in the product. 21:30 – Inbound marketing and audience building advice. Brian Halligan [08:26] – that didn’t have a bunch of developers running around. 10:00 – HubSpot’s first customer. 12:00 – Important early features. 30:20 – Freemium.

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consulting advice founder peer-to-peer 51