How a User-Driven Pivot Led to Product-Market Fit

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Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

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On Startup Success, we discuss what’s working right now for scaling founders and investors... You’ll hear interviews with founders and investors who have compelling stories to share, new trends, and conversations from thought leaders and experts who have walked the walk. Each episode will dig into a crucial area of startup success: finance, entrepreneurship, fundraising, hiring, marketing, sales, and operations to help your startup or portfolio company scale.

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How a User-Driven Pivot Led to Product-Market Fit

Startup Success: A Podcast for Founders & Investors

25 minutes

5 months ago

How a User-Driven Pivot Led to Product-Market Fit

In this episode, we sit down with Merrill Lutsky, Co-Founder and CEO of Graphite, a breakout startup redefining code review for the AI era. Originally built solely as an internal code review tool, Graphite unexpectedly attracted a huge amount of interest from the developer community, prompting the team to pivot their startup to focus entirely on that tool.

Today, Graphite’s AI developer productivity platform is helping engineering teams at companies like Ramp, Figma, and Shopify ship code up to 40% faster.

We discuss:

Graphite’s remarkable user-driven pivot
How they achieved product-market fit
The highly responsive and scalable user feedback loop that propels their success
Pros & cons of using AI in software development

Startup founders – don’t miss this episode packed with lessons on product-market fit, building for a passionate user base, and driving rapid growth in a competitive space.

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