Top of the lyne - Rarer than a profitable unicorn🦄
Rarer than a profitable unicorn🦄On not letting a good crisis go to waste🧘🏼♀️, the myth of clean data 🤷🏻♂️, Pendo's crazy ride so far🎢 and a lot, lot more! 🗞👋 Hey, Ruchin here! Welcome to this week’s edition of the ✨Top of the Lyne✨ newsletter. Each week we publish the hottest news from the beautiful world of product-led growth! (PLG)
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If you're a startup founder trying to take lessons from this chart about how Teams "beat" Slack, just remember that Slack was bought for $27,700,000,000, and then get back to work.
Introducing Retool Database—now in private beta. We’re giving you the power of a SQL database and the speed of a spreadsheet right inside Retool:
📥 Import CSVs or start fresh
🏗️ Build apps and manage your data together
🚢 Ship changes safely across environments
At DoorDash, I was always frustrated by data accuracy…
How can big co’s have bad data?
Then I found out Apple also has trouble confirming if they sold 2.1 or 2.2 BILLION iPhones 📱
Guys, the margin of error is in 100 millions.
🔎 The PLG huntCan do, with Candu 👩🏻💻 So excited to be featured on @TechCrunch today! Shout out to the one and only @alex for covering our $5M seed funding round—which will help us bring Candu's #nocode native web builder to SaaS. #candu #nowyoucan Which hot and upcoming PLG company are you most excited about? 👇🏻 Growth Stories 🚀One Software to give All Software a GLOW UP! ✨ Fundraising, Venture Capital, and Exits 🤑
We’re excited to share we have raised a $30 million Series C round led by @transposevc and @Shopify.
Read more about how we're going to use this funding round to help merchants generate even more revenue through their customer experience:
Launches, events, and releases
Every year, half a billion people create PowerPoint decks.
This past year, we've been working on a completely new approach to presentations and decks in private beta. While we're still super early, we're excited to launch publicly on Product Hunt today!
producthunt.com/posts/gamma
Excited to launch @with_poly today, backed by @ycombinator!
Poly lets you generate 4K+ UHD creative assets with just a text prompt. We're starting with textures for 3D modeling, then to illustrations, icons, vector art, and more.
Check it out: withpoly.com Nerding out on PLG 🤓📚All definitions aside, Product-led growth optimizes for one north-star business metric—
Blazing Hot Meme Zone ⚡️Productivity 101 👩🏻💻 Community Watch 👀ICYMI: It's been a week since our first community mixer. We asked attendees of "Bottoms Up" to invest in 5 PLG companies of their choosing. The results may not surprise you (or maybe they will) How it started vs. How it ended
A few BottomsUp crowd favorites were: 🎨@figma 💻@webflow 🧑💻@getpostman 🖊️@clickup
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Creating $2.6B+ 'Pendo' with Pendo
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
The growth strategies behind Pendo's $150M+ ARR, 6000+ customers and $2.6B+ valuation (IPO upcoming?)
Mario Araujo, Head of Growth at Softr on his journey🎯, monetization vs. engagement🔄 and his ideal team 🙌🏼
Friday, August 12, 2022
Mario gets candid with us on his journey from a technical role to Head Of Growth at Softr, the one goal his team relentlessly chases and the tools he can't live without!
Wizzing to 💯 million
Friday, August 12, 2022
Forbes Cloud 100 🎖, reducing friction, secret behind Replit's success 👀, and Mutiny against traditional marketing ⚔
A Mutiny against traditional marketing ⚔️
Tuesday, August 9, 2022
A rebellion against traditional marketing and growth engineering joined by teams at Snowflake, Salesforce, Carta, AngelList, Gong, Dropbox, Hopin and more💥
Building heavier companies 🏋🏻♀️
Thursday, August 4, 2022
Doubling market share for dummies 🥸, the return of the prodigal son, a framework for your first Growth hire 🙌🏼 and Jeff Bezos' two cents on navigating a recession 🤸🏼♀️
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