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Twitter Auto-Generated Username Test Increased Weekly Signups by 70,000

“And what ended up happening is we started to get 70,000 more signups per week because the solution we implemented was a good enough solution to work. And at the time that meant like, gosh, 20, 30% more signups per week, just from a small team of four people im…”

Andy Johns Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 32:52 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

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Johns: Auto-generating usernames increased Twitter signups by 20% to 30% weekly

“And at the time, that meant, gosh, 20, 30% more signups per week, just from a small team of four people implementing a really hacky solution.”

Andy Johns Mar 25, 2022 ▶ 14:23 20VC The Memo: Inside the Growth Engines of Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Instacart with the Growth Leaders Who Built Them; How Instagram Went from 440M to 1BN, How Twitter Changing Their Signup Flow was a Needlemover and How Removing Card Payment Requ

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Chamath Palihapitiya Hired Andy Johns at Facebook Despite Being "Least Qualified"

“I was told I was the least qualified profile of everyone that had applied for this position, but that he appreciated the scrappy approach that I took to getting my career started.”

Andy Johns Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 3:45 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

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One of Facebook's Best Early Growth Leaders Was a Physicist

“One of the best early growth leaders at Facebook was a physicist. He was trained as an experimental physicist.”

Andy Johns Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 9:40 20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

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