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10/9/2022
11 : 14

Developing a growth model + marketplace growth strategy | Dan Hockenmaier (Faire, Thumbtack, Reforge)

Listen now (64 min) | Dan Hockenmaier is an expert on marketplace strategy and growth. He was previously the Director of Growth at Thumbtack as well as a partner at Reforge, where he co-created the
10/2/2022
11 : 14

Using behavioral science to improve your product | Kristen Berman (Irrational Labs)

Listen now (56 min) | Kristen Berman is the CEO and co-founder of Irrational Labs, where she helps companies like Google, Airbnb, PayPal, Microsoft, and LinkedIn improve their products and services
9/29/2022
11 : 4

Customer-led growth | Georgiana Laudi (Forget The Funnel)

Listen now (67 min) | Georgiana Laudi is the co-founder and CEO of a consulting agency called Forget The Funnel, where she helps SaaS companies scale and improve conversion rates through customer-led
9/27/2022
11 : 4

How to get your marketing team to drive more impact

GACCS: A framework for aligning your marketing, product, and sales teams ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
9/25/2022
11 : 4

Growth tactics, retention strategies, and becoming a better writer | Julian Shapiro (Demand Curve, Hyper, Webflow,…

Listen now (59 min) | Julian Shapiro is widely known as the founder of Demand Curve, where he's helped thousands of companies figure out their growth strategy. He also wrote the growth marketing
9/20/2022
15 : 34

How to get better at influence

What Frodo Baggins from Lord of the Rings can teach us about influence ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
9/18/2022
11 : 4

Building a meaningful career | Jason Shah (Airbnb, Amazon, Microsoft, Alchemy)

Listen now (70 min) | Jason Shah has led product teams at Amazon, Airbnb, Microsoft, and Yammer and currently leads the product team at Alchemy (one of the most important web3 infrastructure companies
9/15/2022
11 : 14

When and how to invest in new acquisition channels | Adam Grenier (Uber, MasterClass)

Listen now (70 min) | Adam Grenier is the former Head of Growth Marketing and Innovation at Uber, where he helped build Uber's growth infrastructure from the ground up. He is also the former VP of
9/11/2022
11 : 4

How to build a powerful marketing machine | Emily Kramer (Asana, Carta, MKT1)

Listen now (71 min) | Emily Kramer led and built the marketing teams at Asana, Carta, Ticketfly, and Astro (acquired by Slack). These days, she's the co-founder of MKT1, where she helps founders
9/4/2022
11 : 4

The role of AI in new product development | Ryan J. Salva (VP of Product at GitHub, Copilot)

Listen now (65 min) | Ryan J. Salva is the VP of Product at GitHub, where he led the incubation and launch of Copilot. Copilot uses OpenAI's ML engine to suggest code and entire functions in real
9/1/2022
11 : 14

How to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)

Listen now (68 min) | Yuriy Timen was Global Head of Marketing and Growth at Grammarly, and is now a full-time growth advisor, having worked with more than a dozen companies, including Canva, Airtable,
8/30/2022
15 : 4

How to measure cohort retention

A deep dive into the formulas, visualizations, and SQL you need to accurately measure and report on cohort retention—a guest post by Olga Berezovsky ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
8/22/2022
3 : 9

The nature of product | Marty Cagan, Silicon Valley Product Group

Listen now (60 min) | What are common diseases of product teams, and how do you avoid them? Why should you focus less on problem discovery and more on solution discovery? How do you maintain your
8/18/2022
11 : 4

The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, Marketer in Residence at First Round Capit…

Listen now (83 min) | What makes a great brand? After working at Google and Square, Arielle Jackson has spent the past eight years consulting startups on how to create powerful messaging that works. In
8/16/2022
15 : 4

Kickstarting and scaling a consumer business—Step 6: SCALE: Build your growth engine

How products grow, how your product will grow, and the GTM motions of today's biggest consumer apps ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
8/14/2022
11 : 14

The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft

Listen now (92 min) | Shishir Mehrotra is the co-founder and CEO of Coda, and formerly head of product and engineering at YouTube. In this episode, he shares his insights on growth strategy, how he
8/9/2022
15 : 4

How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 5: RETAIN: Iterate until enough people stick around

How to know if you've got product-market fit, how to iterate toward product-market fit, and how long it usually takes ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌
8/9/2022
14 : 4

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8/7/2022
12 : 44

How to launch and grow your product | Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt and Weekend Fund

Listen now | Thousands of new products launch each year, but very few make it. Ryan Hoover has seen thousands of products launched over the course of his time running Product Hunt, and in this episode,
7/26/2022
15 : 4

How to kickstart and scale a consumer business—Step 4: Find your early adopters by doing things that don’t scale

Also, how today's biggest consumer products got their first 1000 users ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌