Luke Harries
20 statements across 2 episodes · 4 bullish · 8 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement May 23, 2025 by Luke Harries · across every show →
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May 23, 2025 neutral
Harries: Conversational AI agents can completely replace inbound SDRs
“Really the function is data collection, and so instead, one, why don't you just add that to the form in the first place? Well, the reason is people don't really want to go through this back and forth and go into more detailed questions and, you know, trying to…”
May 23, 2025
Harries: Second growth hire for early startups should be a front-end growth engineer
“Normally the second hire I recommend is a growth engineer who's front-end leaning. And so this is like a software engineer who's hacky, who's really into metrics, and they should be setting up landing pages for SEO. They should be doing mini tools. They should…”
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 bearish
Harries Passed on Angel Investing in ElevenLabs Over Terrible GTM Plan
“And I was like, That is a terrible go to market plan. That's absolutely terrible. I was kind of angel investing them. I was like, this is not something I want to invest. What do you mean step one? You're going to build the world's best AI audio model, somethin…”
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025
Harries: First growth hire must be a generalist spanning positioning and distribution
“Start with one generalist growth marketer, and they should be responsible for everything from messaging and positioning, working with the founder, up to awareness and setting up channels and testing. The reason why you need them to do all of that is if you onl…”
May 23, 2025
Harries: Traditional PMs Will Shift Into Growth or Product Engineering
“Yeah, I think PMs move to either growth, so you combine the PM role with marketing, and depending on your size and how strong your engineers are, you do more or less of the PM, or many PMs will actually move towards product engineering, which is they're somewh…”
May 23, 2025 positive
May 23, 2025 negative
May 23, 2025 bearish
Harries: Avoid LinkedIn ads due to excessively high CPMs
“LinkedIn ads, the CPMs are so high. Yes, you can do great targeting, but actually I would argue invest a lot more time into creating excellent content that you distribute organically. Maybe you want to layer on ads on top, but particularly the kind of people t…”
May 23, 2025
May 23, 2025 negative
Harries: Paid marketing before PMF is early B2B startups' biggest mistake
“The biggest mistake I see early founders making, particularly for BtoB, is doing paid marketing too early. Because if you don't have PMF yet, you're not going to get paid marketing working, and you're going to spend all your time and all your engineering time …”
May 23, 2025 positive
Harries: Organic LinkedIn is today's most underappreciated growth channel
“The most underappreciated growth channel I see is organic LinkedIn. On Twitter, you're competing against the best writers in the world. You're competing against Harry Stebbings running a short. Bill Ackman. Like, it's really tough. On LinkedIn, you're competin…”
Jan 11, 2026 positive
Harries: Bryan Johnson's 'Don't Die' campaign is the premier growth strategy in tech
“The best growth strategy I've seen is what Brian Johnson is doing. His marketing is so good that they made a Netflix show about his marketing, and I do think Brian Johnson's actually being a authentic. Like, he really does care about longevity, about creating …”
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Harries: Five-minute founder monologue videos fail to retain launch audiences
“The big mistake that I see with most people's videos is that they put the founder themselves, they do a full five minute monologue themselves about the company mission, and unless you have the editing skills of MrBeast, you're just not going to keep people for…”
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Harries: Apple marketing unreleased Apple Intelligence features is bad growth strategy
“The thing I'd most like to change about the world of growth is is you just should not launch products which aren't actually ready. The biggest villain I see doing this at the moment is Apple. And so we've always held Steve Jobs in our mind as just like this be…”
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Jan 11, 2026 negative
Harries: Conversational AI agents will completely replace inbound SDR roles
“The function of an inbound SDR is I'm sure the best ones are persuasive and they're friendly, but really the function is data collection, and so instead, one, why don't you just add that to the form in the first place? Well, the reason is people don't really w…”
Jan 11, 2026 bullish
Harries: Organic LinkedIn is today's most underappreciated tech growth channel
“The most underappreciated growth channel I see is organic LinkedIn. On Twitter, you're competing against the best writers in the world. You're competing against Harry Stebbings running shorts. Yeah, Bill Ackman. Like, it's really tough. On LinkedIn, you're com…”