Discovery
Definition
The process of determining what to build; separating good ideas from bad ones before writing code, through customer interaction and prototyping.
Keywords: discovery, continuous discovery
The Core Insight
Evidence from the Corpus
“Camille Ricketts (00:14:31): I love using the word discovery because I think that that is even a little bit like a step further than awareness where true discovery is when you have intent to find out more.”
— Camille Ricketts
“This episode is brought to you by Jira Product Discovery.”
— Albert Cheng
Episodes
Discovery appears in 112 episodes, representing 37% of the corpus. Below are the most popular episodes featuring this concept.
Brian Chesky
Brian Chesky’s new playbook
1:13:28
Dalton Caldwell
Lessons from 1,000+ YC startups: Resilience, tar pit ideas, pivoting, more | Dal...
1:20:53
Marty Cagan
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
1:25:15
Ray Cao
Product management theater | Marty Cagan (Silicon Valley Product Group)
1:25:15
Elizabeth Stone
How Netflix builds a culture of excellence | Elizabeth Stone (CTO)
1:13:44
Kevin Weil
OpenAI’s CPO on how AI changes must-have skills, moats, coding, startup playbook...
1:31:41
Nick Turley
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
1:35:38
Dr. Fei Fei Li
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
1:19:34
Fei Fei
The Godmother of AI on jobs, robots & why world models are next | Dr. Fei-Fei Li
1:19:34
Gustaf Alstromer
Lessons from working with 600+ YC startups | Gustaf Alströmer (Y Combinator, Air...
1:25:36
Mike Krieger
Anthropic's CPO on what comes next | Mike Krieger (co-founder of Instagram)
1:06:22
Eli Schwartz
Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)
1:55:10
Ian McAllister
What it takes to become a top 1% PM | Ian McAllister (Uber, Amazon, Airbnb)
1:04:59
Anneka Gupta
Becoming more strategic, navigating difficult colleagues, founder mode, more | A...
1:08:37
Todd Jackson
A framework for finding product-market fit | Todd Jackson (First Round Capital)
1:27:13
Jen Abel
The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
1:16:05
Merci Grace
How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Mat...
1:11:08
Katie Dill
Building beautiful products with Stripe’s Head of Design | Katie Dill (Stripe, A...
1:34:01
Eric Ries
Reflections on a movement | Eric Ries (creator of the Lean Startup methodology)
2:14:15
Matthew Dicks
How to tell better stories | Matthew Dicks (Storyworthy)
1:42:57