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

Andrew Chen

Or if it’s a workplace app, to use social media to drive beta users into a wait list. I often use benchmarks like D30 >20% or projecting out M12 to be >30% to try to assess this. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!), But more importantly, it should be qualitative.

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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

Earlier this year, I joined Andreessen Horowitz as a General Partner, where I focus on a broad spectrum of consumer startups: marketplaces, entertainment/media, and social platforms. 2) Then, to identify potential upside based learnings from within the company as well as across benchmarks from across industry.

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