Ryan Valenzuela

Ryan Valenzuela

Cofounder | Shaping stories & data

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Building Jetti so you can build your business and focus on your craft. Formerly Google | Hinge Health | Thumbtack

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When Does a Product Become Too Complex to Understand?

There s a point where products stop being fully understandable.

Too many features
Too many dependencies
Too much history

And decisions start getting made with partial context.

Are We Still Doing Discovery - or Just Validating Decisions?

A slightly uncomfortable question:

Are we still doing product discovery - or mostly validating decisions we already made?
As teams grow, processes get heavier, but it sometimes feels like real exploration gets lost.

We ve been thinking about how Athena could push teams
back toward actual discovery - not just confirmation.

How honest do you think discovery really is today?

we hit #1 on product hunt… after completely breaking our last launch

3 months ago we launched Orange Slice on Product Hunt

and it should have been a huge moment for us

instead it was honestly one of the worst days I ve had building

not because people didn t show up
they did

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