growth model
5 statements across 4 episodes · 1 bullish · 0 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 28, 2021 by Elena Verna · across every show →
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Oct 28, 2021
Elena Verna: Growth models rely on acquisition, monetization, and retention
“There's three main levers that fall into growth model, which is how do you acquire customers? How do you monetize your customers? And how do you retain those customers? Those three levers uniformly apply across any given product to achieve maximum distribution…”
Oct 28, 2021 positive
Elena Verna: Terrible products with great growth models can become unicorns
“And by the way, there is incredible products that have never seen the light of day. And died of slow death because they never had a growth model. And there's also a lot of really terrible products that have incredible growth models and the multi-billion dollar…”
Aug 10, 2022
Give growth candidates pre-built models to test difficult trade-offs
“The reason I like to give them the data beforehand, and the reason I tell founders that it's cool to give them the model beforehand, because if they were just picking, doing the model themselves, that they can't really challenge themselves. It's kind of like b…”
Jan 18, 2023
Founders must identify specific growth loops before writing a job description
“I would say the first thing is write the job description. It shouldn't be your standard job description because you, as I mentioned, the first step, there are some like homework for the founder to do. You need to think about your growth model. What are the ini…”
May 31, 2024
Lerner: Growth models must start with value-delivering North Star metrics
“The way to map your growth model is you start with your North Star, and that's going to be a metric that increments when you deliver value to customers, and something that encompasses the entire funnel, and, you know, you stress test it a bit so it's not creat…”