[this is my #1 post aka digital BILLBOARD] Hi, Im Ayush. 20. I like how a product moves from paper to production, and love, being a part of it. what I have done/been a part of: >only student + guest speaker at Cursor's first New Delhi event. > led waysorted (ai saas startup) growth from 0 to 1000+ MAU (all organic, no paid marketing). > conceptualised a tool from a blank page to fully mapped AI tool (comment summariser; waysorted) > designed complete pricing strategy for an entire tool suite (globally) > spent my hours research, growing and working on: Saas, b2b, sales tech. > only athlete in my tier 3 university to play three consecutive university games in football > played an international match against Afghanistan at the age of 13 >i have a very cool instagram page about photography, purely made for passion: @ tasveer(dot)as >i can run a marathon on a random tuesday, because i can. > (hope to fill more, soon) decisions. decide. destiny. I’m good at conversations, just not always great at starting them (learning though ). Always down to talk, share, or chat about anything, my DMs are open! p.s- kinda feel odd while writing "Hi, Im Ayush", cause i feel, i am more, thank you.

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"you're not ready yet" okay but who's the boss? 😭 i think we spend way too much time waiting for permission to do things nobody is stopping us from doing. George Mack's article on high agency got me thinking about how this shows up in growth. 🧵

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being the youngest person in the room doesn't stop you from asking: "have we actually tested this?" and if the answer is no, maybe you can help set up the test. you don't need to have every answer to ask a useful question.

then there's overwhelm. the article's suggestion: shrink the task until the first step feels doable. "figure out growth" is a mildly terrifying item on a to-do list. "ask 3 recent signups what convinced them to try us" is something you can do today.

but "i tried it" needs a little structure too. before sending: >who is this for? >what am i testing? >what response would justify a bigger test? otherwise it's very easy to stay busy and still have no idea what you're learning.

George suggests treating decisions as experiments. that feels especially useful for growth. you can spend a week debating whether an outreach angle will work, or send a small batch and see what comes back. at least the replies weren't written by your imagination.

say 20 relevant people ignore your dm. did they understand the offer? was it relevant to them? were you asking for too much upfront? "nobody replied" is an observation. figuring out why takes a little more work.

the article also gets into how attached we become to assumptions. "our audience doesn't respond to cold outreach." okay, based on what? one campaign? one message? one offer? i'd want to know what actually failed before retiring the entire channel.

and those conversations can change the whole problem. you might be debating a new acquisition channel while people are signing up and never finishing onboarding. before finding more people to send through the door, probably worth checking what happens inside.

another is overcomplicating the obvious. imagine spending 3 days choosing a tool to collect user feedback. meanwhile, you could've messaged 5 users and asked where they got stuck. sometimes the first useful move is almost annoyingly simple lol.

one trap he describes is being too vague. in growth, "we need more users" leaves so much unanswered. which users? where are we losing them? what made the last person sign up? a specific question gives you somewhere to start looking.

he breaks high agency into 3 things: >clear thinking >bias to action >disagreeability my takeaway: understand the problem, try something, and question the assumptions you're handed. pretty useful when your job involves figuring out what gets people to care.