Everything Andy Johns said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Growth Teams Matter Far More in Network Effects Businesses
“I think the most important distinction that a startup has to make as it relates to this question, and really any growth-related question, is are we a network effects business, or are we not a network effects business? And the reason why I think that is critica…”
Startups Should Delay Growth Hires Until Post-Product-Market Fit
“I wouldn't even consider hiring ahead of growth or building a growth team until you have a clear indicator of product market fit, which is some amount of exponential organic growth.”
Drilling Into Low-Level Project Details Exposes Pretenders in Growth Hiring
“One of the easiest tools to test for depth is to ask them to point out a couple examples in which a growth project or a growth experiment was run at One of the prior companies that was successful and then spend the entire interview just drilling in on every fa…”
Executive Hiring Risk Is Picking Division Optimizers Over Business Optimizers
“I think the great risk is you get an executive who comes in who's willing to optimize their division because it makes them look good over optimizing the results for the business as a whole.”
High-Impact Growth Teams Inherently Cause Territorial Friction With Product Owners
“The stay off my lawn thing is a distinct characteristic of a growth team that has huge impact within a network effects business.”
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…”
Early-Stage Growth Teams Should Value Correlation Over Causality
“The guidance that I generally give, especially for the early stage startups, is move fast, be comfortable with correlation, because correlation just provides Quality hypotheses, and that's all you care about at that point. You're not looking for something that…”
Andy Johns earned early seven figures as a venture capital partner
“Suddenly I found myself in a position where I was making, you know, high six figures per year into early seven figures.”
Johns: Primary therapists often function as routers to specialized wellness practitioners
“They're not gonna have all the answers, but they can act like a router, where as they're helping you understand yourself, and they're really understanding you, they're thinking about, okay, Who might this person also benefit from speaking with? You know, let, …”
Johns: Disrupted sleep and diet signal acute burnout over routine stress
“When their fundamental functions, when their core behaviors of diet, exercise, playfulness, socialization, sleep, when those things get disrupted, Like it's a sign that there is something going on here that you need to take a look at. And so the same is true w…”
Andy Johns reached his career peak at his lowest mental health point
“As my career sort of reached its pinnacle, that from a professional, from a financial perspective, I was at my highest, but when it came to other aspects of my life, I was arguably at my lowest or close to my lowest.”
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.”
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