The #1 way to win today vs the competition: Know your customers cold. Not just leaving that to your FDE/customer team, or reports back from someone. - The sales team that know every core feature and can demo it cold - Engineering that talks to customers monthly (or more) - Every exec meeting in person with customers monthly etc etc Know it cold. You win. Not always. But pretty often, if the competition (even just their sales team) doesn't
Great products come from deep intimacy with the customer. You have to be in the trenches - watching, feeling, experiencing the product the way customers do. I joke with my team that they should know our customer so well they know what gum they chew. Twice a year, we fly customers to our off-sites to spend a whole week with our team. That week, the customer stops being an abstraction and becomes a real person with real problems. We encourage them to roast us, to build alongside us in our hackathons and to debate our roadmap with us. Last month we were joined by a restaurant owner who has used Owner to grow his business from a single food truck to +30 locations and 9 figures in annual revenue. His success wasn't an accident. It's the result of our team spending thousands of hours in the trenches with restaurant owners like him. The best feeling in the world is watching something you built actually change someone's life. As a builder, that's what it’s all about. If this video gets you excited to build with us at Owner for hardworking business owners, DM me!
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