Growth Experimentation

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Cheng: Growth experimentation must pair with capitalizing on viral cultural waves
“And it's like the growth experimentation is more the slow and steady or fast and steady, I should say approach where you're just continually iterating. You're making the product experience better, but then every so often, right, there's a big wave that comes i…”
Albert Cheng Oct 5, 2025 ▶ 43:45 Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)
Long-Term Growth Experiment Results Frequently Diverge From Initial Wins
“Look at some of the experiments that you thought were your biggest winners. Look at the downstream metrics for a year, two years on that experiment, and I'll bet you'd be surprised how many times the metric is different than what you thought it would be after …”
Archie Abrams Nov 7, 2024 ▶ 14:17 Breaking the rules of growth: Why Shopify bans KPIs, optimizes for churn, and prioritizes intuition
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Sean Ellis: AI will model experiment outcomes and could replace ICE
“What I think is going to be really interesting is that over time, I think AI is going to actually change our ability to model out potential outcomes on experiments and start to Whether, whether it's a more informed way of doing ice or replaces ice that, that u…”
Sean Ellis Sep 5, 2024 ▶ 1:29:46 The original growth hacker reveals his secrets | Sean Ellis (author of “Hacking Growth”)
20VC Insight
Fishman: Growth experimentation yields more failures than successes over time
“You're going to be wrong probably more often than you're right. Especially as you do more and more things it gets harder to be right over the long term.”
Adam Fishman Jun 15, 2022 ▶ 5:17 Adam Fishman: Takeaways from Lyft and Patreon; How to Build Viral Loops | 20VC #897 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings

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