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Albert Cheng

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2025-10-05

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2025-10-05

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1. “The lived product experience for most of the free users was that Gramley was just a product to fix your spelling and grammar because those were the free suggestions. What if we actually sampled a number of different paid suggestions and interspersed them to free users across their writing? All of a sudden people were seeing Gramley as a much more powerful tool than they were before.”

   2025-10-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

2. “User retention is gold for consumer subscription companies. If you don't retain your users, then a lot of the onus is on getting them to pay on day one.”

   2025-10-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

3. “Growth as the job is to connect users to the value of your product. Growth sometimes gets this reputation that it's just pure metrics hacking.”

   2025-10-05 · Lenny's Podcast · How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com) · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source