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Cover of Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

Crossing the Chasm

Geoffrey A. Moore · 1991
Mentioned 25 times across 6 podcasts · 2018–2026
Mention timeline25 mentions
20182026
Where it's mentioned
2026
I dropped out of college and built a $3.6B company from scratch
My First Million · Jul 2026 · 42:16
and then you know maybe like crossing the chasm or inside the tornado ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Father of the iPod and iPhone on building taste, judgment, and creativity in the AI era | Tony Fadell
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2026 · 37:35
i also updated the cross the chasm uh you know crossing the chasm graphic um in the book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
5 questions to ask when your product stops growing | Jason Cohen (2x unicorn founder)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2026 · 98:26
for product i actually like crossing the chasm which of course everyone's heard of but what i find is no one's read it ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
Tom Digan & Greg Stewart - Building the World’s Best Fitness App
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2026 · 36:50
greg goes into a cave because there's nothing else to do and he's reading the book crossing the chasm great book that i think all founders have read ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
2025
Bill Gurley - The Gift and The Curse of Staying Private
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2025 · 53:13
i think a lot of what we read in crossing the chasm or the innovator's dilemma the big companies are supposed to be slow to mobile slow to the internet ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
Inside Gong: How teams work with design partners, their pod structure, autonomy, trust, and more | Eilon Reshef (co-founder and CPO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2025 · 42:55
i i by the way i i did read crossing the chasm and i told myself nah i can do way better than that ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
2024
The GitLab way: Kindness, transparency, and short toes | David DeSanto (CPO)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2024 · 71:47
but yeah i think it's i think it's been good to help keep people moving forward love it david is there anything else you wanted to share or touch on or leave listeners with before we get to our very exciting lightning round the big thing i just like to let people know if you're not familiar with git lab or you haven't heard of git lab in a couple of years like please go check out our website we do everything across the software development lifecycle you know when i started in ▶ tap to hear this moment · 25s
Geoffrey Moore on finding your beachhead, crossing the chasm, and dominating a market
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jan 2024 · 0:34
geoffrey is the author of maybe the most influential and important book on go to market ever written crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
2023
Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Jun 2023 · 72:36
one is a sort of a little bit of an old school book called crossing the chasm by geoffrey moore ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
Product lessons from Waymo | Shweta Shrivastava (Waymo, Amazon, Cisco)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Apr 2023 · 36:58
crossing the chasm by jeffrey moore and ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
#651: Legendary Investor Bill Gurley on Investing Rules, Finding Outliers, Insights from Jeff Bezos and Howard Marks, Must-Read Books, Creating True Competitive Advantages, Open-Source Strategies, Adapting Mental Models to New Realities, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Jan 2023 · 48:32
crossing the chasm which does a really good job of explaining how a startup should kinda sequence their customer base as they grow ▶ tap to hear this moment · 11s
2022
Building better product roadmaps | Janna Bastow (Mind the Product, ProdPad)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Oct 2022 · 47:30
the product vision template you might actually recognize it from the jeffrey morse crossing the chasm book ▶ tap to hear this moment · 6s
When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2022 · 38:26
i think the book cross the chasm is like a great place to start in terms of like thinking about the broader topic of that ▶ tap to hear this moment · 7s
How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth · Sep 2022 · 60:59
like the tipping point and like crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
Geoffrey Moore - Building Gorilla Businesses - [Invest Like the Best, EP. 261]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jan 2022 · 3:12
jeffrey has spent his career focused on the dynamics surrounding disruptive innovations and his book crossing the chasm has become a canonical work for young businesses trying to unlock mainstream markets ▶ tap to hear this moment · 10s
2021
#550: Andrew Chen — Metaverse, Metrics, and Meerkats
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2021 · 12:27
huge fan of his because of crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
2020
#486: Harley Finkelstein — Tactics and Strategies from Shopify, The Future of Retail, and More
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2020 · 69:53
are you familiar with the jeffrey moore book uh crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
Dropbox: Drew Houston
How I Built This with Guy Raz · Nov 2020 · 32:48
i had read this book crossing the chasm which talks about how technology is adopted ▶ tap to hear this moment · 5s
2019
The Lean Startup and the Long-Term Stock Exchange (with Eric Ries)
Acquired · Dec 2019 · 19:19
was steve in in his thinking about this was he influenced by crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
#402: Books I've Loved — Seth Godin and Esther Perel
The Tim Ferriss Show · Dec 2019 · 8:55
crossing the chasm by jeff moore ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s
#397: Two Questions Every Entrepreneur Should Answer
The Tim Ferriss Show · Nov 2019 · 16:41
there's a book that i've heard you reference recently that it seems like people have forgotten about and maybe they should put more front and center which is crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 9s
Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
Acquired · Jun 2019 · 29:33
i believe jeffrey morgan crossing the chasm came up with that frame ▶ tap to hear this moment · 3s
2018
Elad Gil – How to Identify Interesting Markets - [Invest Like the Best, EP.101]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Aug 2018 · 16:53
this is an old concept in terms of jeffrey moore crossing the chasm which is you know who are your early adopters and then eventually you know how do you make it to mainstream ▶ tap to hear this moment · 8s
#334: Drew Houston — The Billionaire Founder of Dropbox
The Tim Ferriss Show · Aug 2018 · 15:56
crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 1s
Michael Recce – Tim Cook’s Dashboard - [Invest Like the Best, EP.91]
Invest Like the Best with Patrick O'Shaughnessy · Jun 2018 · 48:13
and there's a great book called crossing the chasm ▶ tap to hear this moment · 2s