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2 resources from Inside Intercom we point founders to, and the questions each answers.

🎧 Podcast
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Why we picked it Bob Moesta helped build the JTBD method alongside Christensen, and here he is specific about how to catch the non-functional job in a live interview: listen for the energy, the anticipation, the reward, and the social part, not just the task someone says they were doing. This is the practical companion to the book, showing you what to actually probe for when a customer explains a purchase. Treat his questions as prompts to adapt, not a script to recite.

Bob Moesta on Jobs-to-be-Done (Inside Intercom podcast)

On Inside Intercom by Bob Moesta with Intercom about 30 min

  • Do not accept the surface reason: dig into what the person was doing, the energy behind it, and the reward they were chasing to surface the emotional and social job.
  • Talk to people who just bought and people who just quit, because the switch moment exposes the push and pull forces functional questions miss.
  • Emotion and hesitation in an interview are signals, so follow them rather than smoothing past them.
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🎧 Podcast
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Why we picked it Hansen runs interviews for her own bootstrapped products and talks candidly about the emotional side founders underrate: staying quiet through silence and not rescuing an interviewee from an awkward pause. Practical for solo founders doing their own calls without a research team behind them.

How to deploy empathy to get the most out of customer interviews

On Inside Intercom by Michele Hansen ~40 min

  • Sit through silence instead of filling it for them.
  • Empathy in the room gets you further than a perfect question list.
  • You can run good interviews without a research background.
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