The Only Way to Grow Huge

https://blog.samaltman.com/the-only-way-to-grow-huge

我觉得 Sam Altman 提到的这个增长策略,真是简洁又精准。

All companies that grow really big do so in only one way: people recommend the product or service to other people.

成长为足够大的公司只有一条路:人们向其他人推荐该产品或服务。

What this means is that if you want to be a great company some day, you have to eventually build something so good that people will recommend it to their friends--in fact, so good that they want to be the first one to recommend it to their friends for the implied good taste. No growth hack, brilliant marketing idea, or sales team can save you long term if you don't have a sufficiently good product.

这意味着,如果有一天你想成立一家伟大的公司,你必须打造出好到人们愿意将它推荐给朋友的产品。好到他们想成为第一个推荐它的人,以向他们的朋友暗示良好的品位。如果没有足够好的产品,任何增长技巧、绝妙的营销理念或销售团队都无法带来长期的帮助。

这是一个三赢的策略:

  • 创作者创造了很棒的产品而自豪
  • 传播者向朋友展示了良好的品味
  • 使用者因为使用好的产品而受益

当然也会有反例,比如微软当年通过操作系统捆绑 IE6,让 IE6 的覆盖率飙升,直接击垮了 Netscape,但这是在产品有庞大用户基数的前提下,而这个产品,如果缺少「可推荐性」,可能也很难获取足够多的用户。

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