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Minute Monday #1: The impact of failing fast

Grow faster by accelerating learning

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Ben Williams
Mar 20, 2023
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Why is it important for product and growth teams to find ways to fail fast?

Assumptions:

  1. Failing = learning (don’t bork your experiments)

  2. 25% mean experiment win rate (75% of hypotheses disproven)

  3. 20% baseline metric

  4. 5% mean relative uplift for winning experiment

  5. Team A runs 1 test per month

  6. Team B runs 2 tests per month

Let’s see what happens over the course o…

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