Patrick McKenzie

@patio11

I work for the Internet, at , mostly on Atlas. Opinions here are my own.

東京都 Tokyo
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Joined February 2009
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  1. Pinned Tweet
    6 Aug 2015

    The tweeting will continue until software labor market efficiency improves!

    39 retweets 250 likes
  2. 12 hours ago

    I did a podcast with StartupCTO.io on engineers cross-training on sales, marketing, and business.

    6 retweets 25 likes
  3. Oct 19

    If your first love in computers also happened to be machine learning then this will probably be a fun read:

    32 retweets 121 likes
  4. Oct 19 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    When you see this dialog you know it's going to be bad but then you read it and realize that it's a rabbit hole straight into Hell.

    Best confirmation button ever:
    32 retweets 51 likes
  5. Oct 19 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    If you think of it like "I am producing a marketing deliverable for my customer", OTOH, you produce an entirely different product/feature.

    1 retweet 7 likes
  6. Oct 19 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    If you think of it like a map, geographical accuracy (Springfield pins don't end up in Chicago) a high priority; looks are not.

    1 like
  7. Oct 19 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    Intercom had a map of users they exposed in-product; realized people used more to brag than to analyze; built a "worse" map qua map.

    6 likes
  8. Oct 17

    The counterintuitive thing about some B2B startups is that some exist mainly because they charge more than competitors, not less.

    21 retweets 79 likes
  9. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    (I like when "meh it's just a /command to get this done and then I'll ping someone" feels easier than "let me Trello that for tomorrow.")

    1 retweet 6 likes
  10. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    (Appropriately for listening to a talk by Slack: this is why I love Slack integration on lots of internal tools.)

    1 retweet 2 likes
  11. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    I can literally feel "Eff it maybe tomorrow" setting in when I know that I'm going to have to do 10 things to accomplish a grindy task.

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  12. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    This is one of those "all models are wrong but some models are useful" times.

    7 likes
  13. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    I don't know whether decision fatigue is real but model number of decisions you can ask for as a day as a scarce, valuable resource.

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  14. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    A major goal of internal tooling (and SaaS for that matter) is to reduce the number of decision points you present the user.

    2 retweets 16 likes
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  16. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    (Mamoon Hamid at )

  17. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    The first sales hire at a SaaS company should be a "player/coach"; someone who can figure out how to sell your product, execute, THEN hire.

    8 retweets 19 likes
  18. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    Daily Active Users (people who used in last 24h) and Monthly Active Users (last 30 days), respectively.

    4 likes
  19. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    DAU / MAU over 50% in an enterprise SaaS company is insanely impressive. (That's like a Slack-ish sort of number; really rare.)

    8 retweets 21 likes
  20. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    Quick ratio: MRR growth in a period / MRR contraction (churn, etc) >= 4 implies strength in a SaaS company, per Mamoon Hamid

    4 retweets 24 likes
  21. Oct 18 Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo

    (They're getting much better software, too.)

    1 retweet 6 likes

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