Podcast · 50 min

Quantifying Product Market Fit

Arjun Sethi and Jake Ellowitz · Prime Venture Partners Podcast Free Advanced India

An Indian VC podcast where Tribe Capital's partners break down how they measure product market fit through cohorts, growth accounting, and the quick ratio rather than gut feel. It gives you the vocabulary to talk about your retention and churn as numbers a smart investor would respect. Useful if you want a rigorous, data first way to prove whether your product is actually holding users.

  • Cohorts and growth accounting separate real retention from churn masking growth
  • The quick ratio shows whether you gain more users than you lose
  • Averages can lie, so segment before you conclude
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The question it answers

  1. My MVP works but nobody sticks around after signing up. How do I diagnose whether it's a product problem or an onboarding problem?

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