Vaibhav Sisinty
Founder & CEO, GrowthSchool. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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He founded GrowthSchool, an edtech platform backed by Owl Ventures and Peak XV Partners that provides cohort-based programs in growth hacking, marketing, and generative AI. Prior to launching GrowthSchool, he managed growth operations for Uber in India and Latin America and led regional marketing expansion for travel platform Klook.
Everything Vaibhav Sisinty said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Vaibhav Sisinty Defends 18-Hour Workdays as Necessary to Outperform Competitors
“I mean, Shantanu's post went viral, sadly, the 18 hours. But I mean, if you ask me, there's nothing wrong with what he said. I've been working 16, 18 hours all my life. And that became part of my life as well. If you want to do more than others, you have to pu…”
Scaled Organic Growth Is Impossible Without True Product-Market Fit
“No matter how build an organic lever you build, right? Unless you have true PMF. Like when I say true PMF, I don't mean your great retention numbers and all. For me, true retention is if I shut my product down today, will 25 people line out outside of my offic…”
Consumer Brands Succeed by Outperforming Competitors on Paid Ads
“I think today, according to me, if you ask me, most of consumer brands will succeed if they're able to crack Facebook and Google and LinkedIn ads. Better than others, right?”
Performance Marketing Is the Only Way to Scale Edtech Pre-PMF
“With biggest of the edtechs, the problem that I've seen is CAC. Acquisition cost is through the roof. We have to make it work on performance only, because that's the only way to scale today, sadly, until you get true PMF.”
GrowthSchool Targets a 3:1 First-Purchase AOV-to-CAC Ratio to Break Even
“We have to break even or recover the CAC in the first purchase. And my internal target is CAC to AOV of the first purchase to be a ratio of three, right? AOV to CAC, I mean, right? Not LTV to CAC. I want to do AOV to CAC at three, right?”
Solo, Non-IIT, and Non-IIM Founders Face Red Flags From Indian VCs
“Non-IITN, non-AMG, non-tech guy, solo founder are all red flags for investors.”
Early-Stage Startups Must Implement OKRs to Scale and Minimize Micromanagement
“Usually whenever I said, OKRs, A lot of people said, bro, what do you have to do in this small team? No, it's important for a team to scale. Usually growth stage teams kind of build those things up, right? But we are bringing consultants on board to make that …”
Founder Personal Branding Is Critical for Zero-to-One Startup Growth
“Personal branding of founders and the founding team that has worked phenomenally well for us. And I keep saying this to every founder that I meet. If you have an intent to build something or you are building something, please spend some level of time building …”
GrowthSchool's Core Thesis: Students Learn From Practitioners They Aspire to Become
“The thesis was people want to learn from people who they want to become. That was the bigger thesis.”
GrowthSchool Aims for $100 Million Scale via 100 $1M Revenue Programs
“So hundred programs each doing a million dollars in revenue is hundred million dollars, which will lead to a billion dollar business. That is our basic math, putting it out there, right? So how can we find a hundred topics which will do at least a million doll…”
Sequoia Issued GrowthSchool a Term Sheet the Day After Its IC
“We directly had an IC at 10 in the night. Next day I had a term sheet.”
Onboarding Operators as Angels Increases Chances They Become Future Instructors
“If we can get them as investors, if we can get them to put some money off theirs, there's always a chance that we can get them as mentors. If they ever want to teach, we will be the first way to first place to go, right?”
GrowthSchool Could Become Profitable Immediately if Management Chose To
“Even today we are in a position where I can turn on a switch and I can be profitable.”
User Posts Generate 20-25% Monthly Organic Acquisition Lift for GrowthSchool
“Every month we have more than 10,000 posts coming on LinkedIn and Twitter together, which drives us about 20%, 25% of Lyft organically, which also helps our overall acquisition cost, right?”
Kunal Shah Is an Angel Investor in GrowthSchool
“I've roped in him as an angel. So one day I'll probably convince him to do one as well.”
Vaibhav Sisinty Bootstrapped GrowthSchool With 1 Crore INR and Five Employees
“I put my own savings and took a small loan from a brother, put like a CR into this business. I'll just start this. And when you're doing this, you're a very small team, right? Teams is expensive. So I had a team of two full-time people and three interns”
GrowthSchool Reached Nearly $1 Million in Revenue Within Eight Months
“In eight months, we got to a point where over the end of the year, we would have hit a million dollars in revenue. Almost a million dollars, if not exactly a million dollars, right?”
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