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Growth Insights

Lessons from 247 conversations with growth leaders

Synthesized from 125 hours of podcast interviews across 40 shows in 4 languages. Every article quotes the people who actually built it.

Episode Insightplgonboarding

Kate Syuma on Why Product Quality Kills More PLG than Bad Tactics

Kate Syuma spent six years at Miro scaling from 63 employees to nearly 2,000. Her most contrarian belief? Your growth tactics are useless if your product experience is broken.

Kate Syuma · Growth Advisor & Founder

Episode Insightmarketplaceb2b

Casey Winters on Why Marketplace Founders Play the Wrong Game Early On

The former CPO at Eventbrite and growth leader at Pinterest and Grubhub explains why most marketplace founders obsess over the wrong metrics, how to spot sustainable acquisition loops before launch, and why your software doesn't matter as much as you think.

Casey Winters · Fmr CPO / Growth Advisor

Episode Insightfintechb2b

Alexandre Prot (Qonto) : Comment bousculer l'écosystème bancaire

Le co-fondateur et CEO de Qonto partage les coulisses de la construction d'une néobanque qui réinvente la banque d'entreprise en Europe.

Alexandre Prot · Co-founder & CEO

Episode Insightbrandexperimentation

6 Growth Leaders on the Non-Hacks That Actually Work

Six VPs and founders break down the unsexy, foundational work that beats growth hacks every time—from testing hypotheses to building brands that last decades.

Growth Leader · Head of Growth

Episode Insightb2bretention

Sean Ellis on Why Product-Market Fit Is Just the Beginning

The founder who coined "growth hacking" reveals why most startups waste their product-market fit advantage—and shares the survey questions that helped Dropbox avoid that trap.

Todd Olson · Founder & CEO

Episode Insightfintechb2b

Didier Hilhorst (Qonto) : Comment le zéro bug structure votre growth

Qonto ne tolère jamais plus de 5 bugs en backlog. Pennylane en a 140. Les deux explosent. La différence ? Choisir sa religion produit et l'assumer jusqu'au bout.

Didier Hilhorst · VP Design

Episode Insightfintechb2b

Arthur Waller de Pennylane : 140 bugs au backlog et on accélère quand même

Zéro bug ou vitesse maximale ? Arthur Waller, CEO de Pennylane, partage sa stratégie pour scaler en fintech avec 140 bugs au backlog — et pourquoi c'est un choix délibéré.

Arthur Waller · Co-founder & CEO

Episode Insightonboardingactivation

Kate Syuma on Why Miro's Best Onboarding Experiment Failed Users Loved

Kate Syuma scaled Miro from no onboarding to 50 million users. The experiments that won Twitter praise often lost on metrics—here's what actually moved the needle.

Kate Syuma · Growth Advisor & Founder

Episode Insightplgpricing

Kyle Poyar on Why Going Enterprise Doesn't Mean Killing PLG

Growth Unhinged's Kyle Poyar shares tactical ways to test product-led growth without destroying your business model, and why companies going upmarket often make a fatal mistake with their self-serve motion.

Kyle Poyar · Operating Partner

Episode Insightpricingb2b

Miro, OpenAI, Loom, and Splunk on Pricing as a Growth Lever

The pricing teams at Miro, OpenAI, Loom, and Splunk reveal how they use minimum seat counts, price drops, and packaging to drive growth—and why most experiments fail.

Alison Harmon / Akshay Sharma / Janie Lee / Carsten Holm · Head of Growth

Episode Insightteam-buildingb2b

Yuriy Timen on Why Most Advisors Fail Before They Start

After scaling Grammarly to $500M in revenue, Yuriy Timen spent four years advising 35+ companies. Here's what he had to unlearn about control, ego, and the myth of the linear career.

Yuriy Timen · Growth Advisor

Episode Insightteam-buildingplg

Yuriy Timen on Why Growth Teams Treat Product and Marketing Like Enemies

Grammarly's former Global Head of Growth reveals why most companies split growth into warring tribes—and how to build one team that owns the full funnel instead.

Yuriy Timen · Growth Advisor

Episode Insightplgb2b

Kyle Poyar on Why PLG Sales Teams Fail (And How to Fix It)

Most PLG companies sabotage their own sales motion by making two critical mistakes: calling every free user regardless of fit, and confusing product champions with actual buyers. Here's how to layer in sales without killing what made PLG work.

Kyle Poyar · Operating Partner

Episode Insightaiteam-building

Andrew Chen on AI's Pre-Google Ads Moment and Why PMs Are Becoming ICs

The a16z general partner believes we're in AI's pre-commercialization era—and that the product manager role is about to look radically different as leverage per person explodes.

Andrew Chen · General Partner

Episode Insightteam-buildingexperimentation

Sean Ellis on Why Your Growth Team Is Probably Just Rebranded Marketing

The man who coined "growth hacking" spent the last six years fixing a problem: teams read Hacking Growth, get excited, then fail at execution. Here's what actually works.

Sean Ellis · Founder

Episode Insightcommunityplg

Kyle Poyar on Why Community Isn't a Growth Strategy (And What It Is)

Kyle Poyar built a usage-based pricing mastermind that unicorn founders now ask to join. His playbook: start with no, listen for pull, and stop thinking about your KPIs.

Kyle Poyar · Operating Partner

Episode Insightb2bbrand

Jason Ing on Why B2B Marketers Need to Stop Ignoring Emotion

Gusto's CMO explains why B2B marketers who ignore emotion are leaving money on the table, how to get buy-in for unmeasurable channels, and why he always starts with qual before quant.

Jason Ing · Chief Marketing Officer

Episode Insightaib2b

Everett Butler on Building Go-to-Market in a Category That Doesn't Exist Yet

The head of marketing at Lindy explains why you can't outsource positioning to the market, why retention is a growth responsibility, and how AI will change what marketing teams look like.

Everett Butler · Head of Marketing

Episode Insightplgonboarding

Wes Bush on Why Most SaaS Companies Build Watered-Down Gatorade

ProductLed founder Wes Bush breaks down his 9-component system for building a product-led growth motion that actually converts, including the one exercise that boosted MRR by 20%.

Wes Bush · Founder

Episode Insightexperimentationteam-building

Sean Ellis on Testing Product-Market Fit Across 600,000 Books and 16 Countries

The founder of growth hacking spent 100 days teaching workshops across 16 countries. Here's what he learned about cultural appetite for risk, the real power of his PMF question, and why collaboration beats knowledge.

Sean Ellis · Founder

Episode Insightb2bexperimentation

Jordan Hwang on Experimenting to Learn, Not to Win at OpenPhone

Jordan Hwang, VP of Marketing at OpenPhone, explains why quality experiment design beats volume, how to earn autonomy for channel testing, and the real reason growth programs flatline.

Jordan Hwang · VP of Marketing

Episode Insightplgfreemium

Darren Chait on Why Calendly's Viral Growth Still Requires Growth Fundamentals

When your product schedules millions of meetings a week and has natural viral loops, you'd think growth runs itself. Calendly's Darren Chait explains why that's never the case.

Darren Chait · VP of Marketing

Episode Insightcommunityb2b

Mallory Contois on Why Spending More on Community Gets You Less

As head of community at Mercury, Mallory Contois proved you don't need a massive budget to drive organic growth. Her approach: show up as a human being who understands your users.

Mallory Contois · VP of Growth

Episode Insightplgb2b

Darren Chait on How Calendly Optimizes Virality Without Letting It Run Wild

Darren Chait breaks down how Calendly turns millions of weekly meetings into sustainable growth—and why viral loops still need relentless optimization to work.

Tom Smith · CEO & Founder

Episode Insightaiteam-building

Vanessa Hope Schneider on Why AI Efficiency Isn't the Goal (Yet)

Descript's Head of Marketing breaks down how to build AI fluency in your team, why avatars won't replace humans, and the framework she uses to think about automation across three levels.

Vanessa Hope Schneider · Head of Marketing

Episode Insightpaid-acquisitionbrand

Omer Shai on How Wix Built a $100M Marketing Machine Without LTV

Wix's 18-year CMO runs a $100M+ marketing budget without using LTV. Instead, he bets on TROI, manages 10 channels expecting 4 to fail, and just bought two Super Bowl spots—one for a company barely two months old.

Omer Shai · CMO

Episode Insightteam-buildingretention

Darius Contractor on Why You Can Only Grow People 20% Per Year

The Chief Growth Officer at Otter.ai has a quantified approach to everything: how fast people can grow, when to hire above someone, and how to compose job roles that keep top performers engaged.

Darius Contractor · Chief Growth Officer

Episode Insightplgonboarding

Pulkit Agrawal on Why Chameleon Killed Its $25/Month PLG Plan

Chameleon's CEO explains why a $25/month PLG plan nearly killed the company, how a sales-assisted pivot drove 1,000% ARPU growth, and what makes most product tours fail.

Maria Thomas · Chief Product Officer

Episode Insightplgpaid-acquisition

Bruno Estrella on How Clay Built $500M Valuation with Controlled Chaos

Clay's Head of Growth Marketing reveals the unsexy reality behind scaling from 20 to 700 people: controlled chaos, billboard anxiety, and why PLG isn't for everyone.

Bruno Estrella · Head of Growth Marketing

Episode Insightb2bb2c

Emma Robinson & Kristine Segrist on How Canva Kills B2B vs. B2C Silos

The B2B and consumer marketing leaders at Canva explain why strict business unit boundaries kill growth, how they use data science without playing smaller, and what happens when you stop arm wrestling over MQLs.

Emma Robinson / Kristine Segrist · Head of B2B Marketing

Episode Insightb2bretention

Yann Leonardi sur le framework AARRR : arrêtez d'empiler des bonus

Expert en Growth Marketing, Yann Leonardi explique pourquoi votre offre saturée de bonus ne convertit pas, et comment bâtir un système d'acquisition basé sur l'action, la psychologie client, et la validation terrain.

Yann Leonardi · Co-Founder

Episode Insightb2bcontent

Peter Caputa on Why Inbound's Dead and What Actually Works Now

The Databox CEO explains why writing SEO content on your own domain no longer works, and shares the blend of outbound and content that's driving 10-20% response rates for agencies.

Peter Caputa · CEO

Episode Insightonboardingactivation

Lauryn Isford on Why Your Activation Metric Should Be in the Single Digits

Most teams pick activation metrics that are too easy to hit. Lauryn Isford explains why single-digit activation rates correlate with long-term retention, and how Airtable's team drove 20% activation growth by rethinking onboarding.

Lauryn Isford · Head of Growth

Episode Insightb2bpositioning

April Dunford on Why Your Sales Pitch Structure Is Broken

Most B2B companies have no structure for their sales pitch. April Dunford explains why Hero's Journey kills deals and how to build positioning that actually wins against the status quo.

April Dunford · Positioning Expert

Episode Insightexperimentationteam-building

Adam Fishman on Why Most Innovation Labs Fail at Mozilla and Beyond

Mozilla's former SVP of New Products reveals the stage-gating framework that helps big companies kill bad ideas in weeks, not years—and why your PM shouldn't need 20 interviews to validate a market.

Adam Fishman · Interim SVP New Products

Episode Insightplgb2b

Leah Tharin on Why Your Salespeople Are Killing Your PLG Motion

Most PLG companies past $5M have sales teams. The problem isn't salespeople—it's how you pay them. Leah Tharin breaks down the incentive traps killing self-serve revenue and what to do instead.

Leah Tharin · PLG Advisor

Episode Insightexperimentationretention

Teresa Torres on Why Discovery Teams Throw Ideas Away, Not Build Faster

Product discovery coach Teresa Torres explains why the best growth teams compare and contrast solutions before building—and how assumption testing beats A/B testing for deciding what to ship.

Teresa Torres · Product Discovery Coach

Episode Insightb2bexperimentation

Sri Batchu on Why Two-Thirds of Your Growth Projects Will Fail

Ramp's Head of Growth shares hard-won lessons from scaling Opendoor to $5B and building Instacart's ads business—including why sticking to conviction cost them short-term growth but saved the company.

Sri Batchu · Head of Growth

Episode Insightteam-buildingexperimentation

Darius Contractor on the 5 Signs of Top Growth Talent at Scale

The former VP Growth at Airtable breaks down exactly when to hire growth, how to spot business-driven mindsets, and why your North Star metric might be strangling your upside.

Darius Contractor · Chief Growth Officer

Episode Insightb2bexperimentation

George Bonaci on Finding Alpha in Growth & Why Most Bets Should Fail

Ramp's VP of Growth shares hard-won lessons on running experiments that actually work, saturating channels faster than your competitors, and why hiring junior growth talent beats senior every time.

George Bonaci · VP of Growth

Episode Insightfintechlatam

Hernan Corral de Pomelo: de 350 empleados y $63M a cerrar su apuesta más grande

Lluís Canadel levantó $63 millones para Treinta, llegó a 350 empleados en menos de 2 años sin monetizar, construyó un marketplace con 5 centros de distribución y finalmente cerró todo para volver al producto gratuito que tenía al día 1.

Hernan Corral · Co-founder

Episode Insightb2bb2c

Matt Lerner on Why 90% of Your Growth Work is Wasted Effort

Former PayPal growth leader Matt Lerner spent 11 years watching teams waste millions on preventable mistakes. Here's how to find the 10% of work that actually drives 90% of growth.

Matt Lerner · Growth Leader

Episode Insightplgb2b

Vickie Peng on Why Product-Market Fit Starts With the Market, Not Your Product

Former Instagram product leader and Sequoia partner Vickie Peng explains why most founders fixate on solutions instead of problems—and how to categorize your market's readiness before you build.

Vickie Peng · Partner

Episode Insightb2bproduct-market-fit

Vicki Pang on Why Founders Obsess Over Solutions Instead of Problems

Sequoia's product partner breaks down three archetypes of PMF—hair on fire, hard fact, and future vision—and why most founders are solving for the wrong side of the equation.

Pablo Srugo · Partner

Episode Insightfintechlatam

Ezequiel Huertein: Cómo educar superó a los descuentos en Mercado Pago

El Growth Marketing Lead de Clara revela cómo Mercado Pago ganó con educación cuando todos apostaban por descuentos, y por qué armó un call center "antiinnovador" que aumentó 20% la conversión.

Growth Marketing Lead · Global Head of Growth Marketing

Episode Insightretentionactivation

Brian Balfour on Why Retention Beats Acquisition Every Time

The founder of Reforge and former VP of Growth at HubSpot explains why the best companies obsess over retention first, how to define the right retention metric, and why funnels lead to linear thinking.

Brian Balfour · CEO

Episode Insightb2bfintech

Sri Batchu on How Ramp Built the Fastest-Growing SaaS Business in History

Sri Batchu reveals the growth playbook behind Ramp's unprecedented velocity—from cap table as growth strategy to sales automation with AI, and why his engineers own sales quotas.

Sri Batchu · Head of Growth

Episode Insightb2boutbound

Felipe Aranguiz: Cómo Instantly escaló de $0 a +$15M ARR bootstrap en 18 meses

Felipe Aranguiz pasó de ejecutivo de ventas a Director de Revenue en un unicornio bootstrap. Aquí revela los 4 pilares del cold outreach que siguen funcionando y cómo escalaron sin inversores.

Felipe Aranguiz · Director de Revenue

Episode Insightretentionexperimentation

Archie Abrams on Why Shopify Optimizes for Churn, Not Retention

Shopify's VP of Product reveals how banning KPIs, running multi-year holdouts, and making it easier to churn built a $235B GMV business—and why a third of your "winning" experiments probably don't work.

Archie Abrams · VP Product & Head of Growth

Episode Insightb2bpricing

Gilles Bertaux (Livestorm) : comment tenir son positionnement sur un marché saturé

Gilles Bertaux a cofondé Livestorm à 25 ans sur un marché de dinosaures. Sept ans plus tard, il dirige le leader européen privé du webinar. Voici comment il pense positionnement, concurrence et choix technologiques.

Gilles Bertaux · Co-founder & CEO

Episode Insightb2boutbound

Colin Specter on Why Enterprise Sales Still Needs Face Time to Win

Orum's VP of Sales breaks down how physical touchpoints, product pilots, and a live conversation platform turned bootstrapped beginnings into Series B success.

Colin Specter · VP of Sales

Episode Insightb2bb2c

Luke Harries on Why ElevenLabs Doesn't Use Product Managers for Growth

The Head of Growth at ElevenLabs explains why horizontal products can work, how to hire your first growth marketer, and why your launch video needs to hook in 30 seconds.

Luke Harries · Head of Growth

Episode Insightteam-buildingexperimentation

Jean-Michel Lemieux on Why Most Companies Overplan 100x

The former CTO of Shopify and VP of Engineering at Atlassian explains why planning is killing your velocity, how to measure progress without story points, and why pair programming works for leadership too.

Luc Levesque · VP Growth

Episode Insightpaid-acquisitionexperimentation

Sandy Diao on Why Data-Driven Growth Killed Descript's Web Launch

The former Director of Growth at Descript explains why copying competitors backfires, how to know when you have channel fit, and why static ads still outperform video on Meta.

Sandy Diao · Director of Growth

Episode Insightb2bteam-building

Daniela Gomez de Almada: cómo Nubank llevó su product playbook a México

Iván Canales lideró producto en la primera expansión de Nubank fuera de Brasil. Su aprendizaje: no asumas que tu propuesta de valor funcionará igual en otro mercado, aunque sea Latinoamérica.

Daniela Gomez de Almada · Growth Lead

Episode Insightplgb2b

Hila Qu on Why PLG Is Really DLG (Data-Led Growth)

The former Director of Growth at GitLab explains why most companies fail at product-led growth, how to avoid giving away your product for nothing, and the leverage points that drive actual conversions.

Hila Qu · Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Reforge

Episode Insightailatam

Santiago Savinon: Cómo AI está rediseñando growth en 99minutos

Santiago Savinon, CGO de 99minutos, comparte cómo está usando AI para turbocargar cada etapa del customer journey, desde lead generation hasta retención, en una empresa que mueve 30 millones de paquetes al año.

Santiago Savinon · Chief Growth Officer

Episode Insightoutboundb2b

Brice Maurin (La Growth Machine) : pourquoi le taux de réponse bat le volume

Le CEO de La Growth Machine explique comment un outil né d'un script pour mutuelle a généré 20 000 sign-ups en 3 mois, et pourquoi vous devriez arrêter de bombarder comme un porc.

Brice Maurin · CEO

Episode Insightb2bbrand

Raaz Herzberg on How Wiz Hit $30BN Without Fear-Based Selling

Wiz's CMO explains how the fastest-growing cloud security company ever scaled to multi-billion-dollar ARR by ditching scary tactics, building for infinite scale from day one, and never losing a deal.

Raaz Herzberg · CMO

Episode Insightmarketplacelatam

Fernando del Rio: Cómo quitarle mercado a Mercado Libre sin perder dinero

El ex-director comercial de Mercado Libre revela cómo llevó a Linio de marketplace olvidado a competidor real con triple dígito de crecimiento, sin gastarle en tráfico ni quemar caja.

Fernando del Rio · Chief Growth & Marketing Officer

Episode Insightaiseo

Kieran Flanagan on Why Growth Teams Will Disappear at HubSpot

HubSpot's former VP of Growth says AI is collapsing the walls between product-led and sales-led motions—and growth teams as we know them won't survive. Here's what replaces them.

Kieran Flanagan · CMO

Episode Insightfintechlatam

Julian Nunez de Yuno: de vender dulces en el colegio a 3B de dólares

Julian Nunez construyó Yuno después de ver cómo Rappi perdía 30-40% de sus pagos en cada país. Acá está la historia detrás del agregador de pagos que hoy procesa miles de millones.

Julian Nunez · Founder

Episode Insightplgteam-building

Elena Verna on 10 Growth Tactics That Always Fail (But Keep Getting Tried)

Elena Verna has seen the same growth mistakes play out at Miro, Amplitude, Dropbox, and dozens of companies she advises. Here are the tactics that never work—and why teams keep trying them anyway.

Elena Verna · Head of Growth

Episode Insightexperimentationonboarding

Laura Schaffer on Why Adding Friction to Your Signup Flow Boosted Conversion 5%

Laura Schaffer ran a guerrilla A/B test at Twilio that broke every assumption about developer signups—and discovered that "bad friction is bad and good friction is good."

Laura Schaffer · VP of Growth

Episode Insightb2bai

Nicolás Rojas: De Copiar a Globant a Crear un Producto de AI con 50.000 Usuarios

El fundador de DAPTA cuenta cómo pasó de intentar replicar el playbook de Globant en una software factory a construir un producto de AI que hoy tiene 50.000 usuarios y $5.4M levantados.

Nicolas Rojas · Founder

Episode Insightaiplg

Elena Verna: Why 95% of Growth Is Now Innovation, Not Optimization

Elena Verna has thrown out 60% of her growth playbook at Lovable. Here's what actually moves the needle when you're scaling to $200 million ARR in 12 months.

Elena Verna · Head of Growth

Episode Insightplgai

Elena Verna on Why 95% of Growth is Now Innovation, Not Optimization

The head of growth at Lovable explains why traditional activation tactics don't matter anymore, how shipping velocity became the ultimate retention strategy, and why she's spending 95% of her time inventing new growth loops instead of optimizing old ones.

Elena Verna · Head of Growth

Episode Insightlatamb2b

Carolina Samsing sobre escalar SaaS en Latam sin morir en el intento

Carolina Samsing llevó HubSpot de 3 a 3.000 clientes en Latam y hoy escala Nowports. Aquí comparte qué frameworks funcionan, qué mitos bloquean el crecimiento regional y por qué la transparencia radical es la ventaja competitiva que ignoramos.

Carolina Samsing · VP of Growth

Episode Insightplgb2b

Christopher Miller on How HubSpot Built a PLG Empire on Free Software

HubSpot launched a free CRM in 2015 without a clear plan for what came next. Christopher Miller shares how an aggressive growth team turned self-service revenue from a side project into the company's core engine.

Christopher Miller · VP of Product, Growth & AI

Episode Insightb2bcontent

Robin Conquet : 200 000 € de CA avec 3 000 écoutes par épisode de podcast

Avec son podcast DataGen, Robin Conquet facture 12 000 € par épisode sponsorisé et génère 200 000 € par an sur le sponsoring seul. Son secret ? Une audience ultra-qualifiée de leaders data des grandes entreprises.

Jeremy Goillot · CEO @ The Mobile First Company

Episode Insightaib2b

Amol Avasare on How Anthropic Grew from $1B to $19B ARR in 14 Months

The hardest job in growth means throwing out 70% of what you know, spending most of your time firefighting success disasters, and betting big instead of optimizing small.

Amol Avasare · Head of Growth

Episode Insightmobileb2b

Jeremy Goillot : Pourquoi Mobile First tue les logiciels d'entreprise

L'ancien Head of Growth de Spendesk a levé 12 millions de dollars en seed pour reconstruire les outils B2B sur mobile. Son pari : les PME n'achèteront plus jamais de tableaux de bord à 85€ par licence.

Jeremy Goillot · CEO @ The Mobile First Company

Episode Insightb2bmobile

Jeremy Goillot : lever 12M$ en seed et réinventer le B2B sur mobile

L'ex-Head of Growth de Spendesk raconte comment il a levé 12 millions de dollars en seed sur un Notion, pourquoi les all-in-one sont un piège, et comment il reconstruit les outils B2B avec une obsession : le mobile first.

Jeremy Goillot · CEO @ The Mobile First Company

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Yuriy Timen on Why Growth Advisors Should Never Control the Sausage

After scaling Grammarly to half a billion in revenue as its first go-to-market hire, Yuriy Timen spent four years advising 35+ companies. His biggest insight: the things you think are coupled—growth and product, dunning and access, advice and execution—almost never need to be.

Yuriy Timen · Growth Advisor

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Wes Bush on Why Your Free Model Is Probably Watered-Down Gatorade

The founder who helped 324 SaaS companies generate over $1 billion in sales argues that the next decade won't be won by those who build the best products—but by those with the sharpest go-to-market motion.

Wes Bush · Founder

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Victoria Colombato: Cómo construir growth cuando nadie sabe qué es growth

Cuando Victoria Colombato entró a Mural, su instrucción fue "haz que esto crezca". Su primer cuarto no lo pasó corriendo experimentos, sino reduciendo un mar de métricas a solo tres números.

Victoria Colombato · Head of Growth

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Vickie Peng on Building Conviction Before Building Product

Most companies obsess over their product when searching for product-market fit. The former Instagram product leader turned Sequoia partner argues they're looking in the wrong half of the equation.

Vickie Peng · Partner

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Vanessa Hope Schneider on Building AI-Native Marketing Teams Without Chasing Efficiency

The head of marketing at Descript believes the nearest-term objective of AI adoption isn't efficiency—it's rewiring your brain. Here's her three-level framework for getting teams there.

Vanessa Hope Schneider · Head of Marketing

Guest Profileb2bplg

Inside Tom Smith's Growth Intelligence: How the GWI Founder Thinks About Consumer Research

Most founders obsess over their product. Tom Smith built an entire company around obsessing over everyone else's customers—and turned that insight into a growth engine.

Tom Smith · CEO & Founder

Guest Profileb2bproduct-market-fit

Todd Olson on Finding—and Keeping—Product-Market Fit

The Pendo founder argues that reaching product-market fit is just the beginning—most companies make a critical mistake the moment they think they've found it.

Todd Olson · Founder & CEO

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Teresa Torres on Why Customer-Centricity Without Business Value Is a Disservice

The Product Talk founder believes most teams wait too long to learn they've built the wrong thing—and that customer-centricity without profit is just charity work in disguise.

Teresa Torres · Product Discovery Coach

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Sean Ellis on Why Growth Knowledge Doesn't Translate to Execution

He coined "growth hacking" and sold nearly a million books. Then he discovered the hard truth: reading about growth and doing growth are entirely different problems.

Sean Ellis · Founder

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Santiago Savinon: Autonomía del vendedor, AI como turbo y frameworks contra el caos

Santiago Savinon cree que los vendedores deben tener poderes de CEO. Para lograrlo, mapea cada proceso de venta al detalle más mínimo y deja que AI quite las excusas.

Santiago Savinon · Chief Growth Officer

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Raaz Herzberg on Building Enterprise Brand Without Pipeline Metrics

The Wiz CMO believes every marketing leader who's been fired had green pipeline numbers. She invests in what can't be measured—and closed deals selling millions per hour before hiring a single salesperson.

Raaz Herzberg · CMO

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Peter Caputa on Why Inbound Marketing Is Dying (And What Comes Next)

The former HubSpot executive who built their partner program now has the data proving his old playbook is broken. His replacement combines outbound, content, and customer data into one ruthlessly integrated process.

Peter Caputa · CEO

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Pablo Srugo on Finding Product-Market Fit Without the Hype

Most founders obsess over building the perfect product. Pablo Srugo, partner at Mistral VC, argues they're solving the wrong half of the equation—and missing the market entirely.

Pablo Srugo · Partner

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Omer Shai on Why Conversion Rate is a Stupid Metric

The Wix CMO refuses to measure lifetime value, bought a Super Bowl spot 12 days after an acquisition, and runs 50+ marketers at a company younger than most Series A startups.

Omer Shai · CMO

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Nicolas Rojas: De Soñar con Globant a Construir Agentes de IA en Arizona

El niño que vendía software en buses a Villa de Leyva ahora levanta millones en Silicon Valley, pero su obsesión nunca fue crear una unicornio latina, sino no depender de nadie.

Nicolas Rojas · Founder

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Matt Lerner on Why Growth Is Figuring Stuff Out, Not Running Playbooks

After 11 years running growth at PayPal and coaching hundreds of startups at 500 Startups, Matt Lerner knows the best growth hires have zero marketing experience—and the best funnels add friction.

Matt Lerner · Growth Leader

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Maria Thomas on Product-Led Growth: Why Buffer Prioritizes Product Experience

The Chief Product Officer at Buffer reveals why the self-serve model isn't a magic formula, and how running out of money forced her team to rebuild their entire go-to-market strategy around what customers actually needed.

Maria Thomas · Chief Product Officer

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Mallory Contois on Building Growth Without the Budget

The VP of Growth at Maven ran the lowest-budget team at Mercury and made it a virtue. Her thesis: authentic community scales better than expensive activations.

Mallory Contois · VP of Growth

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Luke Harries on Building Growth Teams That Don't Need Product Managers

Most growth leaders preach focus. Luke Harries built one of the fastest-growing AI companies by ignoring that advice—serving developers, creators, and consumers simultaneously with discrete growth teams for each.

Luke Harries · Head of Growth

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The Jean-Michel Lemieux Playbook for Speed, Quality, and Waste Elimination

The former CTO of Shopify believes companies will die from indigestion before starvation, has retired from Scrum and standups, and thinks most teams overplan by 100x.

Luc Levesque · VP Growth

Guest Profileplgb2b

Leah Tharin on Why Product-Led Growth Isn't About Products Selling Themselves

The PLG advisor who survived two hypergrowth companies believes your product doesn't sell itself—and that's not just okay, it's strategic. Here's why commoditized markets demand free trials and how Flash demos evolved into trackable conversion machines.

Leah Tharin · PLG Advisor

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Lauryn Isford on Why Activation Rates Should Be Lower (Not Higher)

Most growth leaders chase high activation rates. Lauryn Isford, who rebuilt Airtable's onboarding and drove a 20% lift, argues the opposite: lower is often better, experiments are expensive, and tooltips are mostly dead weight.

Lauryn Isford · Head of Growth

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Laura Schaffer on Misattribution, Self-Serve Pricing, and Career Growth

Laura Schaffer added questions to Twilio's signup flow expecting disaster. Instead, conversion improved 5%. The lesson: sometimes friction creates clarity—and executives are further from customers than they think.

Laura Schaffer · VP of Growth

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Kyle Poyar on Why Community Must Betray Your KPIs

The OpenView partner has a rule: if you build community to hit your own objectives, you'll never hit them. His contrarian take on PLG, pricing, and why sales reps calling every free user is a death spiral.

Kyle Poyar · Operating Partner

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Kieran Flanagan on Why Growth Teams Will Disappear and AI Will Own GTM

The HubSpot CMO predicts growth teams will vanish—replaced by AI innovation pods that collapse product-led and sales-led motion into a single, agent-driven experience.

Kieran Flanagan · CMO

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Kate Syuma on Why Big Bets Don't Work at Scale

The former Head of Growth Design at Miro spent six years learning that what users love on Twitter can tank your metrics, big redesigns cost more than they're worth, and asking one extra question might 3x your revenue.

Kate Syuma · Growth Advisor & Founder

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Justin Kistner on Treating AI Like a Junior Employee, Not a Senior Expert

The founder of CopyClub.ai built an $18K MRR content subscription by using AI as a team member, not magic—and his biggest insight is that most growth leaders prompt like they're talking to senior colleagues when they should be talking to interns.

Justin Kistner · Founder

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Juliana Aldana: cómo lanzar productos sin playbook en Latinoamérica

Cuando Uber le pidió buscar playbooks para lanzar Uber Eats en México, descubrió que nada de lo que funcionaba en Australia o Europa servía aquí. Y tuvo que inventar todo desde cero.

Juliana Aldana · Head of Product

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Julian Nunez y la autopista del dinero: cómo Yuno nació del caos de pagos en Latam

La mayoría de los fundadores cuentan historias épicas sobre sus ideas. Julian Nunez admite que armó una lista en Google Sheets y le mandó al carajo a Andreessen Horowitz.

Julian Nunez · Founder

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Jose Velez y el manual para ganar terreno vendiendo puerta a puerta en fintech

El fundador de Bold invirtió en Meta y Google, no funcionó. Contrató 700 comerciales para tocar puertas y llegó al 6% de pagos con tarjeta en Colombia.

Jose Velez · Founder & CEO

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Jordan Hwang on Building Trust, Testing Smart, and Stacking Growth Curves

Jordan Hwang has spent 15 years dismantling the myth that growth curves are smooth. The real picture looks more like programs stacking, dying, and launching again—all at once.

Jordan Hwang · VP of Marketing

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Jason Ing on Why B2B Marketing Needs More Emotion, Not Less

The CMO of Gusto argues that B2B's rational veneer is a trap—and that the best enterprise software should make you smile when you get paid.

Jason Ing · Chief Marketing Officer

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Hila Qu on Why Product-Led Growth Is Really Data-Led Growth

The former GitLab director turned Reforge entrepreneur-in-residence has watched enough companies botch their PLG launches to know: giving away your product for free without data infrastructure is just leaving money on the table.

Hila Qu · Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Reforge

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Hernan Corral sobre crecer demasiado rápido y vivir para contarlo

Levantó 63 millones, llegó a 350 empleados en menos de dos años, creció 20x sin monetizar, alcanzó break even desde -800% de margen bruto. Y cerró igual.

Hernan Corral · Co-founder

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Growth Marketing Lead: Educación antes que descuentos en Mercado Pago

En Mercado Pago, cuando probaron regalar dinero versus enviar guías educativas, los PDFs ganaron. Un aprendizaje que desafía todo lo que creemos sobre incentivos en fintech.

Growth Marketing Lead · Global Head of Growth Marketing

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Growth Leader on Why "Seeking Truth" Beats Growth Hacking Every Time

The former SVP of Revenue at Tonal believes the growth industry's obsession with shortcuts is broken—and that real leverage comes from understanding why something worked, not just what worked.

Growth Leader · Head of Growth

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Gilles Bertaux : le playbook Livestorm pour dominer le webinar en Europe

Le fondateur de Livestorm décode les bilans financiers de ses concurrents publics pour anticiper les mouvements du marché. Une approche que peu d'entrepreneurs osent partager.

Gilles Bertaux · Co-founder & CEO

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George Bonaci: Why Most Growth Teams Are Placing Bets Too Slowly

The VP of Growth at Ramp believes most startups reach channel saturation too slowly, run experiments too carefully, and hire too senior—here's why he optimizes for speed over rigor.

George Bonaci · VP of Growth

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Fernando del Rio: cómo competir contra gigantes con precisión quirúrgica

El gigante no puede moverse rápido en todos los frentes. Fernando del Rio construyó su carrera encontrando precisamente esos espacios donde la escala se convierte en debilidad.

Fernando del Rio · Chief Growth & Marketing Officer

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Felipe Aranguiz: Del Excel y Mail Merge a $15M ARR sin inversores

Hace 10 años, Felipe enviaba 2000 correos desde Excel con mail merge. Hoy dirige revenue en un unicornio bootstrap que factura $15M anuales con cold email como motor principal.

Felipe Aranguiz · Director de Revenue

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Everett Butler on Building Go-to-Market in a Category That Doesn't Exist Yet

Most marketers debate what to call their product. Everett Butler ships language into the world and lets customer behavior reveal the truth—because in AI, the syntax is being written in real time.

Everett Butler · Head of Marketing

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Emma Robinson and Kristine Segrist on Canva's B2B and Consumer Growth Engine

Most companies treat B2B and B2C as separate kingdoms with strict borders. At Canva, two marketing leaders run the business as "two parts of a whole"—and the result is a $3 billion revenue engine with zero attribution finger-pointing.

Emma Robinson / Kristine Segrist · Head of B2B Marketing

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Elena Verna's Growth Machine: How Lovable Broke Every Rule

The head of growth at Lovable—now at $350M ARR in barely a year—has thrown out 70% of her playbook. No optimization. No rebrands. Just innovation, building in public, and giving product away.

Elena Verna · Head of Growth

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Didier Hilhorst et la philosophie du bug comme levier de croissance

Chez Qonto, maintenir moins de 5 bugs en backlog n'est pas une contrainte — c'est l'ADN qui permet au design de devenir un moteur de croissance plutôt qu'un frein.

Didier Hilhorst · VP Design

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Darren Chait on Building Viral Growth Without Forgetting the Fundamentals

Most viral products fail because users see the share button but never understand the value. Calendly's VP of Marketing explains why experiencing the product as a scheduler—not just a sender—changes everything about retention and conversion.

Darren Chait · VP of Marketing

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The Darius Contractor Playbook for Growth That Doesn't Scale (Until It Does)

Most growth leaders optimize for scale. Darius Contractor spent a decade at Dropbox, Facebook, and Airtable learning that the best growth comes from knowing exactly when not to hire a growth team—and how to let your best people outgrow you.

Darius Contractor · Chief Growth Officer

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Daniela Gomez de Almada y el arte de no asumir nada en expansión internacional

La propuesta de valor que funcionó en Brasil con 10 millones de usuarios no era la que necesitaba México. Daniela Gomez de Almada lo entendió antes que nadie.

Daniela Gomez de Almada · Growth Lead