Uploaded November 2014 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Emmett-shear-lecture-16-how-to-run-a-user-interview-annotated
Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on.
In this lecture, Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch, covers the latter. What can you learn by talking to users that you can’t learn by looking at data? What questions should you ask? How can user interviews define or redefine your product goals?
See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16
Discuss this lecture: startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64045
This video is under Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5
Lecture Transcript: tech.genius.com/Emmett-shear-lecture-16-how-to-run-a-user-interview-annotated
Building product, and talking to users. In the early stages of your startup, those are the two things you should focus on.
In this lecture, Emmett Shear, Founder and CEO of Justin.tv and Twitch, covers the latter. What can you learn by talking to users that you can’t learn by looking at data? What questions should you ask? How can user interviews define or redefine your product goals?
See the slides and readings at startupclass.samaltman.com/courses/lec16
Discuss this lecture: startupclass.co/courses/how-to-start-a-startup/lectures/64045
This video is under Creative Commons license: creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5
