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20Growth: How to Build a Paid Marketing Machine: ROAS (Return on Ad Spend) 101 | The Rise of User Generated Content and How to Use It | TikTok Ads: Expectations vs. Reality | Hiring for Growth: When and Who with Sandy Diao
- ▶ 0:26 Harry Stebbings Sandy scaled products to over two hundred million users, and led growth teams at Descript, Meta, and Pinterest.
- ▶ 4:02 Harry Stebbings You've worked at Pinterest, you've worked at Meta slash Instagram, you've worked at Descript, what we use to edit and love.
- ▶ 8:39 Sandy Diao Actually, I'll give you a great example here of something that I learned in my time at Descript. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:42 unnamed speaker So, like, let's go back to the Descript example. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:30 Harry Stebbings I obviously know the Descript products. 10 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:17 Sandy Diao You know, informational intent, like for example, Descript, we would create guides on how to become a content creator, or how best to create a story for your podcast, things of that sort, right? 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 45:13 unnamed speaker So whitelisting actually has great effects for essentially paid social ads where now instead of let's say that you're Descript and you have to promote all of your content through the Descript account, now the 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:59 Sandy Diao And for Descript in the early days, the brand was essentially an extension of the product experience itself. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 59:06 Sandy Diao With Descript and how we figured out this broader, very horizontal messaging of all-in-one audio and video editor, which in theory should sell no one because it doesn't sound like it's powerful enough for anything, that worked well for us… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:03:51 Sandy Diao I know this to be true because in the early days of Descript, not to say that there wasn't any growth before coming in, but it was very sporadic growth.
- ▶ 1:09:31 Sandy Diao The Descript desktop example is a great example.
20Growth: The Death of Growth Teams? | How Hubspot Use AI to Triple Email Conversion | The Future of AI SEO | Why Prompt Engineering is the New Coding | What Every CMO Needs to Know About AI in 2025
- ▶ 1:04:30 unnamed speaker So like, for me, it'd be Descript. 2 times in the scene
Mike Krieger, Instagram CoFounder & Anthropic CPO: Where Will Value Be Created in an AI World?|E1265 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:23 Mike Krieger Descript, I think Descript is some of the best product design in AI, and, like, they've clearly put so much time into the workflow.
Nabeel Hyatt, GP @ Spark Capital: To Win in AI, Investors Need to Change Their Approach | E1255 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 32:51 Harry Stebbings I spoke to Andrew at Descript.
- ▶ 38:50 Harry Stebbings Wordware, granola, descript.
- ▶ 46:22 Nabeel Hyatt Um, Descript is another example. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:38 Nabeel Hyatt If you're Descript today, you don't just sit on this amazing and wonderful interface which kind of changed the market and reinvented what this was.