Casey Winters
22 statements across 4 episodes · 6 bullish · 5 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2021 by Casey Winters · said 34 times in 12 episodes since 2021 · across every show →
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brought up most by Harry Stebbings (24), Vaibhav Sahgal (2), Mike Duboe (2), Ely Lerner (2), Brian Balfour (2), Darius Contractor (1)
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2025 1 mention in 1 episode
2023 10 mentions in 4 episodes 3 per episode
- Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- Guillaume Cabane: Why Your First Growth Hire Should Be a Former Founder | E1088 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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2022 16 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- Vaibhav Sahgal: How We Scaled Reddit to 55M Users; Lessons from Zynga | 20VC #942 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20Growth: Five Signs of Top Growth Talent and How to Detect Them, How to Structure and Conduct the Most Efficient Customer Discovery Process & The Framework to Determine Your North Star and When To Change it with Darius Contractor, Former VP Growth @ Airt
- Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- 20 Growth: Why Retention Defines Product Market Fit, What is Good Retention Levels Today, The Most Counterintuitive Elements of Product and Growth & Why So Many Startups Mess Up Hiring For Growth Teams with Brian Hale, Head of Consumer Product & Growth @
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2021 7 mentions in 3 episodes 2 per episode
- 20 Growth: The 3 Levers to Successful Growth Models, The 3 Types of Growth Hires Startups Need To Know, The 3 Stages All Successful Growth Teams Need To Go Through with Elena Verna, Advisor @ MongoDB and HP
- 20Growth: The Biggest Growth Lessons from Leading Teams at Instagram & Instacart, How To Structure The Hiring Process for Growth Teams, How To Onboard Growth Reps Efficiently and The Relationship Between Growth and The Rest of the Org with Bangaly Kaba, H
- 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu
- every mention in 2021, scene by scene →
Everything said about Casey Winters, oldest first
Sep 22, 2021 positive
Casey Winters: Product-driven growth requires one-week experimental projects over six-month builds
“A lot of what product driven growth requires is someone that can figure out a grand opportunity and then break it down into really small chunks that help them learn that they're not, you know, putting forth a six month project. They're putting forth a one week…”
Sep 22, 2021 negative
Winters: Performance marketing over-reliance fails within five years without network effects
“The default towards performance marketing is the only channel that matters. It creates a lot of issues long term, especially if you're not network effect driven, where It's going to work really well in year one, not as well in year two, and in year five, you'r…”
Sep 22, 2021 negative
Casey Winters: Brand marketing is unmeasurable and speculative for early startups
“Brand marketing, which is neither measurable nor scalable and requires money. It's not a bad idea. It's just usually has a longer return, a more speculative return. So generally startups wait longer before they invest in that.”
Sep 22, 2021 negative
Winters: Scaling growth requires deep engineering work, not quick hacks
“Growth is done in a team, and it's not just hacks or experiments. Like, it requires understanding the growth model of the business, where the constraints are, and potentially doing quick hacks, but a lot of times deep engineering work to actually scale the bus…”
Sep 22, 2021 bullish
Sep 22, 2021 negative
Casey Winters: Refusing interview case studies signals poor fit for startup roles
“Interviews should be for both sides, right? If I feel like that case study is beneath me, that's a problem. That means I'm probably not a good fit for the job right now, and you should be hiring someone more junior, right?”
Sep 22, 2021
Winters: Growth leaders must talk to users, not just analyze data
“Cause if our job as like a growth leader is to connect people to the core value of the product, we need to understand that core value almost better than anyone at the company. We need to know how to talk about it. We need to know the steps that get them introd…”
Sep 22, 2021
Casey Winters: Growth teams must prioritize learning velocity over short-term results
“You can't focus entirely on the results. What you really want to focus on is the learning. Are we continuing to learn how our users operate, how this business operates, and what our scalable growth strategies are? As long as that learning loop is quick, that's…”
Sep 22, 2021
Winters: Founder execution speed is the top factor when angel investing
“In other companies, like I could rely on my rate of execution, you know, like my speed, my learning loop, but now it's become this different element of, I'm really trying to gauge how quickly they learn, how quickly they execute. And that's like the biggest fa…”
Sep 22, 2021 bearish
Sep 22, 2021
Sep 22, 2021
Winters: Growth connects users to existing value, not new features
“Growth is about connecting people to the value that's already been created by the business, you know, either through Product or services or whatever. So growth is not about building totally new features, totally new products. It's about once we have those and …”
Sep 22, 2021
Winters: Startup executives must resolve inter-departmental conflict themselves
“I see a mistake a lot of executives make, and this is outside of growth too, where they're like, they'll expect their manager or the CEO to like take care of their problems for them. And it's like, no, that's not what happens. Like you got to go solve those pr…”
Sep 22, 2021 positive
Sep 22, 2021 positive
Mar 25, 2022 positive
Winters: Pinterest signed up over half the US via Google preview walls
“When people came in from Google, we would let you see a preview of the content, and then we would ask you to sign up to see more of it... As we did that, that was really successful. And we ended up signing up, you know, like over half of the U S up to Pinteres…”
Mar 25, 2022
Casey Winters: Product growth connects users to existing core value
“Growth is about connecting people to the value that's already been created by the business, you know, either through product or services or whatever. So growth is not about building totally new features, totally new products. It's about once we have those and …”
Mar 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022
Nov 25, 2022
Casey Winters: Proven growth leaders won't join startups that haven't prioritized growth
“There are perhaps 50 people that are capable, that have shown previous, like, head of growth experience. And they're not going to join your company until they've seen that you've already prioritized growth and shown that you value it inside an organization.”
Nov 25, 2022
Aug 16, 2023 positive
Balfour names Winters, Contractor, and Cabane as top growth practitioners
“Strategically would be Casey winners. The best person that has thinks about the psychological elements of growth would easily be Darius contractor. The person like a very specialty who I consider like a mad scientist is I call him G, but it's Guillaume Cabane.”