Tal Raviv

I love data, I love people, and I love being proven wrong by both. Product @patreon (patreon.com/careers), previously @duckduckgo and @wix.

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From Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by Sahil Lavingia

While Gumroad, Inc may be small, our impact is large. There is, of course, the $178,000,000 we have sent to creators. But then there’s the impact of the impact, the opportunities that those creators have taken to create new opportunities for others.

From Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company by Sahil Lavingia

It doesn’t matter how amazing your product is, or how fast you ship features. The market you’re in will determine most of your growth. For better or worse, Gumroad grew at roughly the same rate almost every month because that’s how qu…

From Product Management Skills NO ONE talks about ;) by Taruna Manchanda

…m statement, it is but human to get attached to your solution. And that’s where the problem starts. Once they are attached to a solution, PMs tend to start seeking validation of their thought process from everyone around, rather than finding the truth. Investment in the idea leads to attachment, and attachment leads to your defence mechanism kicking …

From The Building Blocks of Culture by Jack Cohen

“When critics get together, they talk about aesthetics; when artists get together, they talk about turpentine.” –Picasso

From A Note on Payments by Tyler Palmer

The reality is that the inconsistencies you’ve seen are the result of us working for you, never against you, to make the necessary changes that ensure your art can continue being funded on Patreon.

From Five Ways Patreon Supports Engineers Of All Backgrounds by Adam Bossy-Mendoza

Engineering leadership at Patreon frequently devises new ways in which we can help everybody’s voice be heard. This means questioning and re-evaluating how we conduct important meetings, like brainstorms or retrospectives. We strongly believe that the collective wisdom of every team outweighs the knowledge of any single …

From A Framework for Determining How Much Data You Need for an Experiment by Manuel Andere

…ce the effect type is settled, think about the minimum effect size you are interested in detecting. Keep in mind that not all effect sizes are relevant in every domain, regardless of how statistically significant they are. If it’s hard to determine whether a specific effect in your response metric is relevant from a business perspective, you should link it, using at least a back-of-the-envelope calculation, to one of your core company metrics where you can make that assessment. For example, you might want to understand how a user sign-up translates to income.

From A Framework for Determining How Much Data You Need for an Experiment by Manuel Andere

However, it’s not trivial to quantify precisely how much each element will impact the required sample size in any given experiment. For this reason, at Patreon, we use a simulation framework to avoid difficult math.

From Membership: The Future for Creators by Jack Conte

nd vide…their dreams into realities on Patreon. From YouTubers to podcasters to webcomics and illustrators, it is now possible to use membership to build a viable business as an artist. Once upon a time, our culture categorized creators as being either “starving artists” or “rich and famous,” but the emerging generation of podcasters, webcomics, and video makers on Patreon are changing that antiquated, sorry perception.

From I’m a woman in tech, and this is what I want in a company by Leigha Mitchell

…one. When you’re a small team and those are the cards you’re dealt, it’s harder to get around that. But you can always put a statement on this page explaining the fact you want to diversify your team and why. Another trick I’ve seen is having a clearly female silhouette saying “This could be you!”.