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Webflow's Path to Product-Market Fit: Lessons on Rigorous Customer Empathy

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A founder story about doing customer research so carefully that you learn things you did not want to hear. It shows what disciplined listening looks like in practice, past the tidy interview tips, when the stakes are your actual company. Useful for seeing the payoff of not fishing for the answer you hoped for.

  • Deep empathy means seeking the uncomfortable truth, not comfort
  • Watch what customers do, not only what they say
  • Rigorous listening early saves you from building the wrong thing
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The question it answers

  1. How do I run a customer interview without leading them to the answer I want?

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