Growth Engine · Track 5
The First Thousand
Uptempo Indie Pop · Scrappy, triumphant, energetic
Lenny Rachitsky · How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
0:002:52⌨Space - play / pause
← → - seek ±10s
N - next track
P - previous track
← → - seek ±10s
N - next track
P - previous track
“Don't pay attention to what Facebook does today — pay attention to Facebook when they were getting their first thousand users.”- Dalton Caldwell
The Story Behind This Song
A montage of origin stories: Whitney Wolfe pitching Tinder dorm to dorm, Evan Spiegel at the mall with Snapchat flyers, Ben Silbermann changing Apple Store displays to show Pinterest, Tony Xu taping a DoorDash menu to a wall, Brian Chesky hot-gluing cereal boxes for Airbnb.
Lyrics
Based on
How the biggest consumer apps got their first 1,000 users
Lenny RachitskyNewsletter
