…and horrible for product and enterprise success
Mirror mirror on the wall… which metrics are going to inform me I’m profitable?
— You, combining your love of Disney together with your concern of startup failure, most likely
I see you there holding up your self-importance metrics (I’m the mirror on this fairy story). You’ve received your cross-team OKR spreadsheet the place your aim is to “construct 3 options”, your quarterly board deck that includes an incredible “10% MoM uptick in TikTok followers”, and that laughable success metrics part of your characteristic spec claiming you’re aiming to “get 50% of customers to click on the massive purple button”.
It’s all simply your online business’s private castle made of sand. It’s not architecturally sound. It’s not sustainable. And it’s not useful. (Why aren’t you constructing your fortress out of, I dunno, bolstered metal?)
I do know this, since you’re me previously (earlier than I turned a mirror, it appears). I, too, used to focus on such metrics as “# customers who used characteristic X” and “# friendlies within the public Discord” and “# social medias being social media’ed”.
Belief me — it’s all in vain. They name it an arrogance for a motive. (Facet word, I simply found a bathroom vanity doesn’t by definition essentially have a mirror. However I’m sticking with my mirror-mirror…
