growth leader

“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…”

“What a lot of product leaders make a mistake of, as well as growth leaders, is they think it's their show. They get to create the vision. They get to create the strategy. And it's like, not really. You're there to execute on the vision and strategy of the foun…”

“I think it's like a listening tour, plus a little bit of a data tour, I'd call it, plus like customer conversations. You've got to learn the business, right, and learn really what makes the business tick, and understand what your cross-functional stakeholders …”

“It will fail if you're just thinking about hiring just like the one person. Think about hiring a person who's going to hire a team and set it up the right way.”

“I think you should bring in a growth leader pretty early once you do kind of understand that it's time to grow, because you want that person to basically architect the system of growth that you're building for your company.”

“So when you're, so I think that's number one, the number two, I would say, especially for early stage is, and it's something I will disagree with some other guests you've had on your podcast is hiring a leader too soon, because when you hire a leader, they mig…”

“And I think you'll see more people like me because I think increasingly growth is a discipline of making a portfolio of bets, thinking about ROI, and thinking about data and experimentation in a rigorous way, which I think my background speaks to.”

“I'd say the most important things are understand that business. Like, is there opportunity Is there leverage to be had in the business? I think this is something like they're hiring you because they need to help to grow, but you want to figure out if they're a…”

“The key to success and growth is testing and learning, and so if you can outsource the cost of learning to other teams, either through advisory like I did in the early days, or through, like, good relationships, you are saving a ton of effort and capital, and …”

“In my opinion, Before you have product market fit, you don't even really know if you're building the right product. And then even once you have product market fit, you then need to figure out how do I get this product to scale within the right channel so that …”