SurveyMonkey

9 statements across 5 episodes · 6 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 22, 2022 by Elena Verna · said 23 times in 7 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Sep 22, 2022 negative
What-if
Qualtrics' growth model would not have worked at SurveyMonkey
“Even when I, for example, was at SurveyMonkey, our main competitor was Qualtrics. We had very different growth models. So Qualtrics growth model slapped on SurveyMonkey would not work.”
Elena Verna Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 54:23 Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Surveymonkey)
Sep 22, 2022 positive
Insight
Combining marketing, product, and analytics under one leader maximizes growth
“In SurveyMonkey, I was running growth marketing, growth product, and analytics, which is a perfect trio in order to be the most impactful in growth.”
Elena Verna Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 8:36 Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Surveymonkey)
Sep 22, 2022 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
SurveyMonkey, Netlify, and Amplitude all overcorrected toward enterprise sales
“I've seen it done at SurveyMonkey, where we weren't chasing after enterprise, go to a market expansion, and we let go of growth, and then we overcorrected. I've seen it done to some capacity at Netlify, at Amplitude. Every company goes through some flavor of i…”
Elena Verna Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 33:52 Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Surveymonkey)
Sep 22, 2022 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Free users drove 100% of SurveyMonkey's user acquisition
“We had the same thing at SurveyMonkey. We had half of our user base that was free, that was retained and healthy, and we were happy about it because they were doing a hundred percent of our acquisition.”
Elena Verna Sep 22, 2022 ▶ 48:14 Why product-led growth is the future | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Surveymonkey)
Apr 16, 2023 positive
Insight
How to ask for advice without triggering confirmation bias
“A question's good if it's specific, if it solicits rationale, and, you know, it's not biased, right? You don't want to start a question with, here's what I think, because people have this tendency to want to please you or to agree with you.”
Ada Chen Rekhi Apr 16, 2023 ▶ 6:44 How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn)
Apr 23, 2023 positive
Disclosure
Verna: Exposing SurveyMonkey users to three paid triggers boosted conversions
“I've had it firsthand at SurveyMonkey. We're just adding consistent UI across all of the paid triggers that were that Amazon gold color and making sure that each user has been able to see at least three of them. There's a rule of three that goes into advertisi…”
Elena Verna Apr 23, 2023 ▶ 1:01:58 The ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena Verna
Sep 19, 2024 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Schwartz: SurveyMonkey Generated $200M Annually From Organic Search Traffic
“You know, when I was at Survey Monkey, we generated a couple hundred million dollars a year off of organic traffic because it was a freemium tool where you search for the product, the problem, you find the solution.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 40:02 Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)
Sep 19, 2024
Disclosure
Schwartz: SurveyMonkey Scaled Only 100 Viable Programmatic SEO Pages, Not 10,000
“So again, SurveyMonkey was one where we had a fat head of templates we could make, but it wasn't a long tail. So we could make, you know, a hundred templates, but we couldn't make 10,000.”
Eli Schwartz Sep 19, 2024 ▶ 1:15:54 Rethinking SEO in the age of AI | Eli Schwartz (SEO advisor, author)
Dec 18, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Lovable's paid retention matches established B2B SaaS benchmarks
“However, what I can say, it's on par with benchmarks of other B to B SaaS products that I've ever worked at. And I worked with Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey, Netlify Amplitude and others.”
Elena Verna Dec 18, 2025 ▶ 13:15 The new AI growth playbook for 2026 | How Lovable hit $200M ARR in one year
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