Definition
Customer Pull
The signal that users are actively seeking out and recommending a product rather than being pushed toward it through marketing or sales. Ali's target signal during pre-PMF iteration: sprint-on-sprint, are customers pulling the product out of your hands and telling five other people to use it? The presence of pull — not adoption driven by founder sales effort — is the leading indicator that product-market fit is being approached.
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