Andy Johns
13 statements across 3 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Nov 17, 2021 by Andy Johns · said 3 times in 1 episodes since 2015 · across every show →
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Nov 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021
Wealthfront Shut Down Its Growth Team to Focus on New Products
“And so eventually what we did at the Wealthfront in the early days of Wealthfront is I was the VP of growth, but at one point we said, you know what, the best thing for our business at this point is to shut down growth. And in its wake, Replace it with another…”
Nov 17, 2021 negative
Candidates Refusing Case Studies Lack Early-Stage Startup Execution Mindset
“So I think if somebody's unwilling to do a case study, you probably have somebody who wants to be running growth at a large established business like Airbnb, and they just want to come over and take over a team of 50 or a hundred people and not be at that leve…”
Nov 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021
Drilling Into Low-Level Project Details Exposes Pretenders in Growth Hiring
“One of the easiest tools to test for depth is to ask them to point out a couple examples in which a growth project or a growth experiment was run at One of the prior companies that was successful and then spend the entire interview just drilling in on every fa…”
Nov 17, 2021
Twitter Auto-Generated Username Test Increased Weekly Signups by 70,000
“And what ended up happening is we started to get 70,000 more signups per week because the solution we implemented was a good enough solution to work. And at the time that meant like, gosh, 20, 30% more signups per week, just from a small team of four people im…”
Nov 17, 2021
Nov 17, 2021
Breakout Growth Comes From Major Product Initiatives, Not A/B Testing
“I have yet to come across a company that has been a big breakout that's progressed from, say, Series B, C, D, E, And go on to these massive growth rounds, predominantly on the back of baby testing. I've never seen it. I see it happen when the startup takes thr…”
Nov 17, 2021
Early-Stage Growth Teams Should Value Correlation Over Causality
“The guidance that I generally give, especially for the early stage startups, is move fast, be comfortable with correlation, because correlation just provides Quality hypotheses, and that's all you care about at that point. You're not looking for something that…”
Mar 25, 2022 negative
Andy Johns: Startups over-rely on growth optimization over product innovation
“A company quickly assumes that the answer to more growth is an optimization-based approach where they start running a bunch of experiments and looking at data, A-B testing their way towards the future, and it overwhelms the company's ability to then start taki…”
Mar 25, 2022 positive
Nov 25, 2022 negative
Nov 25, 2022 positive
Andy Johns: First growth hire must bridge product and technical skills
“You don't want the person to be so senior that they're just thinking about Strategy and orchestrating, you know, a large team. You don't want to hire the person who's a nation builder who just wants to come in and hire lots of folks. I think that first hire fr…”