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Rahul Vohra is the founder and CEO of Superhuman, and earlier founded Rapportive, a Gmail plug-in he sold to LinkedIn in 2012. He describes how he reshaped his own role around product, design and marketing, and how he uses a Sean Ellis-inspired system to find product-market fit and set the roadmap.
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Key takeaways
- Vohra restructured his executive team so he spends 60% to 70% of his time on product, design and marketing instead of typical CEO duties.
- He found product-market fit with a methodical system inspired by Sean Ellis, which algorithmically determines the product roadmap.
- Superhuman onboarded every user manually, with 20 full-time people doing it at peak. This created superfans and let engineers focus on the product instead of onboarding flows.
- Vohra uses a "Single Decisive Reason" framework: make a decision on one strong reason rather than a collection of weak justifications.
Who it's for
Founders of early-stage software products who are searching for product-market fit and deciding where the CEO's time should go.
Why it's worth your time
The ideas on measuring product-market fit, hands-on onboarding and clearer decisions don't depend on email or on the year, so they still hold for most software founders.
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