What Rob Snyder thinks about design
Author of The Power of Pull and writer of the newsletter The Physics of Startups; has advised more than 50 startups on growing from zero to $1 million in revenue.
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4 dated positions, 2025 to 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Rob Snyder has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Our readingPeople with something important to get done do not want to be design partners; they want it done.
Their wordsthe people who actually have something really important they're trying to get done, they don't want to be a design partner. They just want that thing done.
↗How to find product-market fit (but, actually) | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)youtube.com 3rd of 7 in this recording
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Their wordsit's a negative signal to the most, to people with, who actually have pull and it's a positive signal to people who don't.
↗How to find product-market fit (but, actually) | Rob Snyder (Author, The Power of Pull)youtube.com 4th of 7 in this recording
- 4 months earlier
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Their wordsThings that work in practice are designed for one real person. If we don't design it for one real person, it works for zero real people.
↗The Power of Pull: What You Need to Know About Customer Demand to Build a Successful Startup (and Why Most Founders Get It Wrong) (Basic Venture, 2026)books.google.com All 5 from this book
- 8 months earlier
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Our reading · no longer heldSlides are a later resort on a sales call, not the first thing to do.
Recalls holdingI still use them in mine, but I no longer recommend them as like the first thing to do.
SaidI've just found that like by default, when I, when I tell founders to do that and when they, when they try to implement it, they just go straight to presentation mode and it's not a conversation.