performance marketing

6 statements across 6 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 6 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2021 by Casey Winters · across every show →

Everything said about performance marketing, oldest first

Sep 22, 2021 negative
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Winters: Performance marketing over-reliance fails within five years without network effects
“The default towards performance marketing is the only channel that matters. It creates a lot of issues long term, especially if you're not network effect driven, where It's going to work really well in year one, not as well in year two, and in year five, you'r…”
Casey Winters Sep 22, 2021 ▶ 39:54 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
Aug 10, 2022
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Growth teams in sales-led SaaS are just rebranded performance marketing
“In a marketing and sales led business where you have a demo trial, you really have the growth teams you find in those businesses sit on marketing and they just run performance marketing. So in the heyday, they were called performance marketing, but growth soun…”
Kieran Flanagan Aug 10, 2022 ▶ 12:59 Kieran Flanagan: Hiring Tips for Growth; North Star Metrics; Hubspot's Mistake | 20VC #916 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 25, 2023
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Howie Liu: Single-User Software Cannot Support Outbound Sales Economics
“If you're taking a single user product out to market it's just harder to make performance marketing work. It's harder to make, you know, you can't really make outbound sales work, right? The economics of, You know, pitching a single user who pays a single and …”
Howie Liu Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 3:03 Howie Liu: Decoding Airtable's $11B Valuation; The Impending AI Revolution in Enterprise | E1053 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Oct 25, 2023
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Lerner: Performance marketing translates globally while brand and fintech stay local
“Brand people need to know that the culture of the place that they are doing branding too. Performance works pretty similarly in a lot of different places, right? And then like maybe fintech is a good example where just like the core business models and the inf…”
Ely Lerner Oct 25, 2023 ▶ 24:50 Ely Lerner: Should Startups Hire Advisors & How much should they be paid? | E1075 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 5, 2025 positive
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Alex Schultz: All marketing is ultimately performance marketing
“Performance marketing is all marketing. So people make this distinction that you have brand marketing and performance, you have brand and direct response, and all marketing is performance marketing.”
Alex Schultz Sep 5, 2025 ▶ 43:39 20Growth: Meta CMO Alex Schultz on How All Founders Have to Change Their Marketing Playbook in a World of AI | Is AI Plateauing, What it Means if China Wins the AI Race and Why Zuck is a Generational Leader
Aug 14, 2026
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Swulinski: Scaling only winning creatives causes ad performance to crater
“The key thing around creative is not the one creative. It's the package of all of your assets together. They have to be different. They have to, they, to the algorithm, they have to look and feel different. Different ages, different genders, different settings…”
Matt Swulinski Aug 14, 2026 ▶ 20:11 How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski
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