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

Andrew Chen

Aside from the historically tight labor market for these skills, it’s also tricky to have a simple answer to the question. Or are you trying to scale its success? In the book, I describe stage-by-stage how to successfully start and scale the central forces that power tech’s most successful companies — network effects.

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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

The reason for this is that the steps for starting and scaling a new startup share many of the same skills as investing in a new startup: 1) First, we seek to understand the existing state of customer growth – including growth loops, the quality of acquisition, engagement, churn, and monetization. This term dominates.

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What to do when product growth stalls

Andrew Chen

The easy answer that people generally want to here either falls into the camp of: This next magic feature will fix all our growth problems –The PM We need to spend more money on marketing –The Marketer Have you considered adding more AI? All while churn continues to creep up over time as a percentage.