Growth Engineering

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Isford: Tying engineering performance to metric movement incentivizes costly over-experimentation
“There shouldn't be, especially in engineering within the world of growth, a culture around having to point to numbers to demonstrate your impact, because if there is, then the team will buy us to experiments all the time. And that's not necessarily the right t…”
Lauryn Isford Feb 12, 2023 ▶ 8:35 Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
Effective growth engineers happily discard code and embrace imperfection
“The devs that really thrive in a growth context are the ones that are motivated by moving quickly, iterating to create measurable impact. They're not attached to their work. They embrace imperfection as part of the process. They happily discard their code, the…”
Ben Williams Nov 6, 2022 ▶ 48:23 How Snyk built a product-led growth juggernaut | Ben Williams (VP of Product at Snyk)
20VC Insight
Fast Growth Experimentation Clashes With Traditional Software Engineering Standards
“Yeah, and it gets to a fundamental question around the DNA of the engineering team and of the specific engineers, because growth by its nature is about experimentation. And so often you're writing throwaway code, something that isn't really like robust and pro…”
Andy Johns Nov 17, 2021 ▶ 27:49 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
SAASTR Insight
Scott: SaaS companies must master unscalable white-glove service before automating customer success
“Pay attention to the white glove service, which doesn't inherently scale, to then be able to at some point in time scale that whether it's through digital channels, or through automation, or growth engineering, or a combination of all those.”
Roger Scott Jul 30, 2019 ▶ 18:36 "7 Tips and Tricks to having happy customers at Scale" New Relic EVP, Roger Scott

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