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

Andrew Chen

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. When a company like Dropbox, Slack, or Uber hit scale, it might seem like network effects kick in, and the next phase is easy.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Cost: Small.

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Intrapreneurial Pursuits: 11 CEOs On Bootstrapping Innovation In A Bumpy Economy

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But where you run into difficulties is scaling it into a business,” Binns says. It’s a way to unlock a lot of knowledge that’s trapped in our organization and others and to deliver better solutions for the end users, who in our industry are military and recreational customers. User-interface and user-experience software.

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. As a result of this experience, I’m often asked what I’d recommend startups do to grow supply in their marketplace. Cost: Small.