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

Andrew Chen

I often use benchmarks like D30 >20% or projecting out M12 to be >30% to try to assess this. If you are working on a product in real estate that competes with Redfin, the expert skill is probably figuring out how to capture high-intent traffic — like SEO/SEM. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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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.

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