Startup & VC Jargon · Vice President level

"Dogfooding"

"Dogfooding" means having a company's own employees use its product internally before releasing it to customers.

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How "Dogfooding" shows up at work

A beloved tech concept that gets trotted out to suggest a team has genuine conviction in what they are building. Less often mentioned: internal users complain differently than paying ones do.

Buzzword

We've been dogfooding the new dashboard with the sales team for two weeks.

Plain English

We've been using our own product with the sales team for two weeks.

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