Growth Leader
topic on 2 shows · 11 statements across 10 episodes
11 statements about Growth Leader, every show
Carter: Startups Should Hire First Growth Leader Only After Reaching Product-Market Fit
“In my opinion, Before you have product market fit, you don't even really know if you're building the right product. And then even once you have product market fit, you then need to figure out how do I get this product to scale within the right channel so that …”
Cabane: Growth leaders should outsource testing costs through peer networks
“The key to success and growth is testing and learning, and so if you can outsource the cost of learning to other teams, either through advisory like I did in the early days, or through, like, good relationships, you are saving a ton of effort and capital, and …”
Lerner: Growth leaders must vet founding team mindset before joining
“I'd say the most important things are understand that business. Like, is there opportunity Is there leverage to be had in the business? I think this is something like they're hiring you because they need to help to grow, but you want to figure out if they're a…”
Batchu: Future growth leaders will increasingly come from finance and analytics
“And I think you'll see more people like me because I think increasingly growth is a discipline of making a portfolio of bets, thinking about ROI, and thinking about data and experimentation in a rigorous way, which I think my background speaks to.”
Gotthilf: Hiring senior growth leaders too early harms early-stage startups
“So when you're, so I think that's number one, the number two, I would say, especially for early stage is, and it's something I will disagree with some other guests you've had on your podcast is hiring a leader too soon, because when you hire a leader, they mig…”
Founders should hire a senior growth leader early to design growth systems
“I think you should bring in a growth leader pretty early once you do kind of understand that it's time to grow, because you want that person to basically architect the system of growth that you're building for your company.”
Founders shouldn't hire growth talent by pattern-matching specific senior leaders
“I get asked all the time that how do you hire growth people? And it's usually something like, hey, how do we find you, but 10 years earlier in your career? And it feels like. That question is missing the first principles approach to hiring a growth person. If …”
Hiring a solo growth leader without full-stack team support will fail
“It will fail if you're just thinking about hiring just like the one person. Think about hiring a person who's going to hire a team and set it up the right way.”
Growth onboarding requires a listening tour, data audit, and customer chats
“I think it's like a listening tour, plus a little bit of a data tour, I'd call it, plus like customer conversations. You've got to learn the business, right, and learn really what makes the business tick, and understand what your cross-functional stakeholders …”
Winters: Growth leaders must talk to users, not just analyze data
“Cause if our job as like a growth leader is to connect people to the core value of the product, we need to understand that core value almost better than anyone at the company. We need to know how to talk about it. We need to know the steps that get them introd…”
Winters: Growth leaders exist to execute founder vision, not create strategy
“What a lot of product leaders make a mistake of, as well as growth leaders, is they think it's their show. They get to create the vision. They get to create the strategy. And it's like, not really. You're there to execute on the vision and strategy of the foun…”