- The speaker is Divya, a visiting partner at YC and a two-time YC founder.
- Divya discusses the importance of growth in indicating product-market fit.
- Growth is the true signal that a product is desired and people are willing to pay for it.
- Without growth, other indicators of product-market fit are not convincing.
- Product-market fit is achieved when more people buy the product.

Hey everyone, I'm Divya and I'm a visiting partner here at YC.

I'm a two-time YC founder, so I've done 2 startups, been through YC twice over the last 16 years, and today I'm here to talk a little bit about growth versus profitability.

Growth is the only true signal that you have product-market fit.

There's a million other things that you can point to and say, this might mean we have product-market fit, but until you have growth, no one's going to really believe it.

Growth means that you've made something that a lot of people want and that people want to pay for.

Once you have those things you're going to grow.

More and more people are going to buy your product and that's what product market fit looks like.


Speaker 0: Hey everyone, I'm Divya and I'm a visiting partner here at YC. I'm a two-time YC founder, so I've done 2 startups, been through YC twice over the last 16 years, and today I'm here to talk a little bit about growth versus profitability. So why is growth important? Growth is the only true signal that you have product-market fit. There's a million other things that you can point to and say, this might mean we have product-market fit, but until you have growth, no one's going to really believe it.

Right? Growth means that you've made something that a lot of people want and that people want to pay for. Once you have those things you're going to grow. More and more people are going to buy your product and that's what product market fit looks like.

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Growth = Product Market Fit