Andrew Chen

JANUARY 15, 2024

It aims to tell the story of why some products — YouTube, Instagram, Uber, Slack, Dropbox, and others — end up with hundreds of millions (and sometimes billions!) It’s easiest to do with a blog post, or a document, or something like that, but with a 35 chapter book — that becomes a heavy lift. But so it goes.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

My journey took a while too: 10 years in the Bay Area (and blogging, building my network, etc). Above: When I first arrived in the Bay area, if you had searched for “growth hacking” – you would have gotten zero results. I started my blog originally to write down everything I was learning. Let’s get started!

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Andrew Chen

MAY 14, 2018

This was originally published on Intercom’s blog here. Collaborative tools like Dropbox and Slack benefit from built-in virality , where teams adopt them together – and they represent a tidal wave of software products that truly understand the relationships between people. Hope you enjoy! -A]. Listen to the podcast here ».

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And Andrew, you used to blog, I mean you still do, but you used to blog a lot. And so before starting my current professional blog, I think I had like three other blogs that I had started over the years. Ryan: Why did you delete the previous blogs? How did you even get into writing to begin with? Yeah, exactly.

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Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Let me set it up in a few bullets: Many of tech industry’s most valuable products — Slack, Zoom, Instagram, Twitch, YouTube, and others — are at their core products that connect people to each other. People are connected for commerce, communication, collaboration, and more.

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Andrew Chen

DECEMBER 13, 2018

And Andrew, you used to blog, I mean you still do, but you used to blog a lot. And so before starting my current professional blog, I think I had like three other blogs that I had started over the years. Ryan: Why did you delete the previous blogs? How did you even get into writing to begin with? Yeah, exactly.

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