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by usaar333 1124 days ago
> Neeva failed because they didn’t understand distribution

No, the team and its VCs fully understood distribution.

Neeva never got to the point of having a compelling enough product where cost of user aq was below LTV for a large enough market.

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Yea, distribution > product (most of the time) is almost startup 101 these days. It's dismissive to think the team and its big-name VCs behind it don't know the importance of distribution
Wasn't Stripe mostly word-of-mouth, with quite little money spent, until recently?