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

Andrew Chen

Growing your startup’s users and revenue is so critical that it makes sense to hire someone to run it, and to potentially add a team underneath them to support this goal. 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!),

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What to do when product growth stalls

Andrew Chen

Yes, of course, it’s when a top line number (like revenue, or active users, or otherwise) stops growing. There are many benchmarks out there for all the product categories, but as a very rough guideline, you need a D1/D7/D30 of 60/30/15% to be at respectable numbers for a social app. But what’s happening under the covers?