growth

15 statements across 14 episodes · 3 bullish · 1 bearish · 14 people on the record · first statement May 2, 2016 by Byron Deeter · across every show →

Everything said about growth, oldest first

May 2, 2016
Insight
Deeter: Growth is single most correlated short-term variable to enterprise value
“Growth is still fundamentally rewarded, and it's the single most correlated variable in the short term To enterprise value. Really, if you deconstruct where the outliers are both good and bad, you'll find that it's efficient growth that's rewarded most.”
Byron Deeter May 2, 2016 ▶ 15:20 20VC: Bessemer's Byron Deeter on The Commonalities Of Truly Great Founders and Learnings From Investing In Box, Twilio and GainSight
Sep 27, 2017 positive
Insight
Oetting: Business Growth Creates Value Only With Operating Leverage
“Growth creates value when there's an argument or there is evidence of operating leverage, because then it creates more profitability.”
Drew Oetting Sep 27, 2017 ▶ 16:22 20VC: Why VCs Have Forgotten Their Job To Invest In Entrepreneurs not Technologists, How To Know When Growth Creates Value and When It Destroys It & How To Bootstrap Learning Most People Acquire Over Decades with 8VC Founding Partner, Drew Oetting
Dec 3, 2020 positive
Insight
Katrina Lake: Growth Is Most Important if Unit Economics Work
“Growth is almost always going to be most important, predicated on the fact that, you know, this is a healthy business and one where the math works.”
Katrina Lake Dec 3, 2020 ▶ 17:04 20VC: Stitch Fix Founder Katrina Lake on Growth vs Profitability, Her Biggest Lessons From Working with Bill Gurley at Benchmark and The Importance of Mental Flexibility as a Leader
Sep 22, 2021
Insight
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 …”
Casey Winters Sep 22, 2021 ▶ 7:15 Welcome 20Growth: How To Hire a Head of Growth? What are Signs of World-Class Talent? How To Structure the Process? How To Onboard Growth Teams? The Relationship Between Head of Growth and CEO and more with Casey Winters, Chief Product Officer @ Eventbrit
Jul 13, 2022
Insight
Levesque: Developing growth intuition requires extensive pattern matching experience
“Growth takes a really long time to build intuition around. So you need to have done a lot of experiments, tried a lot of different things, and growth is a lot about pattern matching.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 11:15 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 13, 2022
Insight
Luc Levesque: Growth is whatever it takes to move one key metric
“It's basically whatever it takes to move that one metric you're trying to increase.”
Luc Levesque Jul 13, 2022 ▶ 8:33 Luc Levesque: The Biggest Mistakes Founders Make When Hiring for Growth | 20VC #906 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 16, 2023
Insight
Duboe: Successful growth teams should eventually be absorbed into product and marketing
“If the practice of growth is successful, it should eventually abstract itself away and just be how product and marketing are run.”
Mike Duboe Feb 16, 2023 ▶ 10:09 Mike Duboe: Top 5 Lessons Scaling Stitch Fix to IPO; Why CAC/LTV is a BS Metric | 20VC #978 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 27, 2023
Insight
Cohen: Platform growth and trust exist in a fundamental trade-off
“Usually there is a trade-off between trust and growth, right? Because you want to allow for a lot more growth in the system. You want to reduce friction. When you read restriction, you also allowed, allow usually for bad activity to engage as well. And the mor…”
Tomer Cohen May 27, 2023 ▶ 38:05 Tomer Cohen: Why LinkedIn Stories Failed; How LinkedIn's Feed Was Born; AI Startups | E1019 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 16, 2023
Insight
Balfour: Treating growth as a single discipline is a fundamental mistake
“Growth does not mean one thing. As we've talked through, you have to understand the different types of growth systems out there, the ones that work with what types of businesses, and then how do you map talent metrics in other things to those systems. And so I…”
Brian Balfour Aug 16, 2023 ▶ 1:00:03 Brian Balfour: Startup Growth Secrets from HubSpot; Distribution Stratagies; Impact of AI | E1049 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 14, 2024 positive
Insight
Gonto: Qualitative data matters more than quantitative data in growth
“I'm a big believer that qualitative information is a lot more important than quantitative information in growth.”
Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto) Feb 14, 2024 ▶ 6:00 Martin Gontovnikas (Gonto): The Biggest Mistakes Startups Make When Scaling into Enterprises | E1115 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 31, 2024
Insight
Lerner: Startup growth is information discovery, not executing standard playbooks
“How much of growth is actually figuring stuff out? Is actually information discovery rather than running playbooks, doing best practices, copying what other companies did?”
Matt Lerner May 31, 2024 ▶ 3:53 Matt Lerner: How to Hire Growth Leaders and Teams and Why in a World of AI | E1159 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 18, 2024 neutral
Insight
Le Nel: Growth is fundamentally a bidding war against competitors
“Growth is a bidding war, right? It's a bidding war. It's about whether you're able to bid above everyone else.”
Antoine Le Nel Oct 18, 2024 ▶ 49:11 Antoine Le Nel, CGO @Revolut: How Revolut Launch and Grow Products & Why CAC is a BS Metric | E1216 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Feb 2, 2026 negative
Opinion
Zeev: The growth-at-all-costs mindset is dangerous
“I think this notion that only growth matters is a very dangerous one, and I've seen this movie many, many times.”
Oren Zeev Feb 2, 2026 ▶ 15:09 Oren Zeev: Why AI Growth Expectations Are BS & Won't Last? Why GPs Shouldn't Tell LPs Their Strategy
Mar 14, 2026
Insight
Verna: Modern startup growth is fundamentally a trust problem
“Growth is a trust problem now.”
Elena Verna Mar 14, 2026 ▶ 1:53 Elena Verna: How Lovable Launches Product & Hacks Social to Go Viral · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
May 9, 2026
Insight
Weitzman: Growth is an arbitrage game limited to content and distribution
“Growth is just an arbitrage game. You are competing with every single other person in the world who wants to get their product in front of users. And that means that your lever points are either the content that you make or how you distribute that content.”
Cliff Weitzman May 9, 2026 ▶ 7:37 Cliff Weitzman: What I Learned from 100 of the World’s Top CEOs & Why Tokens Will Outspend Salaries · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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