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The Adjacent User Theory

Andrew Chen

When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Solving for the Adjacent User through growth and scaling work helps your product realize its true product-market fit potential. We were growing linearly, not exponentially. Those are your Adjacent Users.

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The Adjacent User Theory

Andrew Chen

When I joined Instagram in 2016, the product had over 400 million users, but the growth rate had slowed. Solving for the Adjacent User through growth and scaling work helps your product realize its true product-market fit potential. We were growing linearly, not exponentially. Those are your Adjacent Users.