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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

It requires the founders to be very involved onboarding users, sometimes one-by-one, into the product. I often use benchmarks like D30 >20% or projecting out M12 to be >30% to try to assess this. Or if you just put X engineers on Y product optimizations, then the growth rate increases by Z.

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The red flags and magic numbers that investors look for in your startup’s metrics – 80 slide deck included!

Andrew Chen

2) Then, to identify potential upside based learnings from within the company as well as across benchmarks from across industry. Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. Education during onboarding helps too.

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