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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. Similarly, product folks from highly quantitative categories like travel, games, and marketplaces tend to do well. 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

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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