The Billion Dollar Mistake With Hiten Shah
 

Links Mentioned:

* The Billion Dollar Mistake
* Hiten Shah - @hnshah
* www.usefyi.com
* www.producthabits.com
* www.GetMeToDone.com
* www.Productiveinsights.com
* www.YouTube.com/ProductiveInsights
* www.CallAshRoy.com
* www.PremiumProductivity.com

Related Episodes:

* 044. Hiten Shah — Cofounder of Kissmetrics — How To Assess If The Software As A Service (SAAS) Business Model Is Right For You
* 145. Amy Porterfield and I Reveal (And Confront) Our Deepest Fears Around Creating Video Content And Share Actionable Tips Around Mindset
* 159. Rand Fishkin Discusses His New Book Lost & Founder And Reveals The Truth About Startup Culture in Silicon Valley. (Why Venture Capital Or External Funding Isn’t Always The Right Answer)
* 001. Neil Patel (Kissmetrics Founder) On How To Make Better Decisions Around Client Selection, Branding and Investing

Ash Roy and Hiten Shah Video Transcript (This transcript has been auto-generated. Artificial Intelligence is still in the process of perfecting itself. There may be some errors in transcription):
Hiten Shah: 00:00

When we learned that people's problems is about finding documents right away. We researched what was out there and we learned that everyone built a search box. Yeah. Most of the products in the market were a search box like, Oh, how fast can we build a search box? We actually built a search box that searched G suite, Dropbox, Onedrive and I think box in realtime. After you typed in a keyword. Once you've authenticated those services and we built that in five days, we shipped it. We just put a lot of constraints on it because most people would assume we need to find all their documents. No, we just need to find enough of them.

Ash Roy: 00:45

Welcome back to the productive insights podcast. Today's episode is brought to you by the productive insights membership program, which helps you to grow your business profitably and fast using online and offline strategies that actually work. Head over to getmetodone.com to find out more about how to get started today. Today's guest is Hiten Shah and he's co-founded CrazyEgg, Kissmetrics and QuickSprout and he is no stranger to business growth. In fact, he's an expert in growth hacking. He also specializes in software as a service which we spoke about in episode 44 when we had him on as a guest back then on this productive insights podcast. Today we are here to talk about a very important article that he wrote called my billion dollar mistake, which I was very moved by personally. I'm really looking forward to digging a bit deeper into some of the nuances of that article. He then shared the article in his blog called producthabits.com which actually sounds a little bit similar to productiveinsights.com so I feel pretty chuffed about that. So Hiten would you like to, just to kick off and tell us a little bit about this billion dollar mistake you made and give us a bit of context around the article for those who may not have read it.