This is the smart comment. If, as a VC, you know the outliers are hard to find, would you really get distracted by someone being on the market for 1-2 months?

Just fyi - Mario Andretti and other similar drivers could be placed into any car and would perform at a very high level after a lap or so...

FAANG = Netflix

Dropping the N seemed both potentially confusing and offensive - you can rest assured I'm not pining for Netflix from Netflix :p

"And immediately my issue was eventually resolved." - from their testimonial.

“eventually my issue was immediately resolved”

/nitpick

even that way, the sentence doesn't make any sense, it's either eventually or immediately /nitnit

Mate, we're all slowly dying.

It is important to measure what you treasure.

However the concept of pairing metrics is equally important. Otherwise the power of what is being measured will become the entire focus.

Pairing metrics combine quantity with quality. Like speed of improvement with safety, or quantity of burgers processed with quality of the assembly process.

I've not heard of pairing metrics before, thanks for mentioning this. It seems like a simple (and obvious in hindsight) way to mitigate the problems that come with focusing on single metrics.

Some brief Googling revealed the following from Marc Andreeson:

Andy Grove had the answer: For every metric, there should another “paired” metric that addresses adverse consequences of the first metric. [0]

Next question for me is, how does one robustly select and pair metrics?

There's a little more here: http://mattyford.com/blog/2014/6/11/paired-metrics

[0] http://pmarcatweetsasblogposts.tumblr.com/post/73631082205/m...

Bicycles in the city, what a great idea.

No cars in the city, an even better idea.

My personal favorite was that businessmen would have to wear clown suits between 9-5

Hey Chris, its Kris!

Jason mentions in his article that this applies after the first few million of ARR.

Secret + Quora = Reddit

Yeah, novelty throwaways are the first thing that come to mind.