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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

Oct 5, 2025 · 1h 25m
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  • The explore-exploit framework finds new growth opportunities through rapid experimentation; Albert's teams run 1,000 experiments yearly, discovering counterintuitive insights
  • Showing premium features to free users doubled Grammarly's upgrades; reverse trials work better than time-based trials; resurrected users drive 80% of mature product growth
  • Successful gamification requires balancing core loop, metagame, and profile; retention quality matters more than vanity metrics for subscription products

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Albert Cheng
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