On today’s episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti and Drift’s VP of Growth, Guillaume Cabane, answer the million dollar question – when to make your first growth hire (and how). Here are a few hints: Make sure you’ve found product-market fit, a proven way for people to buy your product and a true customer base. […]
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Before he was Zapier’s CEO, Wade Foster played saxophone in a blues and jazz quartet with bassist Bryan Helmig, who would later become Zapier’s CTO. (Reminder: This is a true story.) Wade and Bryan became fast friends after playing gigs around their hometown of Columbia, Missouri, and discovered they had a shared passion beyond music: […]
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On this episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti dives deep into the product onboarding experience of Superhuman, an email client and the “fastest email experience ever made.” No matter if you’re in B2B or B2C this episode and Superhuman’s unique, 1:1 onboarding experience is full of lessons you should steal for your own. Why? Because […]
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This week on #Growth host Matt Bilotti sits down with G aka Guillaume Cabane aka the Mad Scientist and Drift’s VP of Growth (and Matt’s boss – no pressure). Today they’re talking all about tools – how to use them to accomplish tasks that others might do for 10x the cost or 4x the time. […]
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On September 20th, 2018, Eventbrite went public, selling 10 million shares and raising $230 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The company’s valuation soared to nearly $2 billion. For Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz, it must have been the happiest day of their lives. I mean, apart from their wedding day… and when […]
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What’s most important when running any growth experiment? Establishing a control group! Sounds simple, but if you’ve ever conducted any kind of experiment, you know it’s easy to mess up. After all, without a control, you have no way of knowing if your experiment actually made an impact. In this episode, host Matt Bilotti runs […]
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On this episode of #Growth, host Matt Bilotti walks us through how to pick, plan and execute a growth experiment. Most crucial to getting started? Make sure the experiment you choose gives you a statistically significant dataset from which to start, run your experiment off of and ultimately base your conclusions on. This experiment framework […]
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If you manage a website or blog — or regularly listen to podcasts — there’s a 99.999% chance you’ve heard of Squarespace. And considering the website creation company now boasts more than 2 million paying customers, there’s also a decent chance that you either a) use Squarespace yourself or at least b) know someone who […]
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Welcome to #Growth, a brand new podcast from Seeking Wisdom hosted by Matt Bilotti, Senior Product Manager on Drift’s Growth team. On our first episode, Matt digs into choosing the metric that matters. Plus, Pirate Metrics, mapping out your funnel and more. In this season you can expect to learn how to run growth experiments, […]
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Pop quiz: Apart from being tech companies, what do Amazon, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Spotify, Kickstarter, Indiegogo, DoorDash, Postmates, and TaskRabbit all have in common? Answer: They all use Stripe to process payments. While it might not be a household name (yet), Stripe has quietly been taking over the world of online payments. In fact, if […]
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It all started with a sticky note. And a long to-do list. And two developers. And a dream to make people’s lives more organized and productive, wherever they worked and lived around the world. The idea to create Trello was formed between the minds of co-founders, Joel Spolsky and Michael Pryor. Their goal was to […]
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I do a ton of outreach here at Drift (we call it hand-to-hand combat) and I’ve started to see a pattern: A lot of marketing people know us as “the company that did that cool LinkedIn takeover thing”. It was a one-off product launch strategy that really seemed to stick with people. So DG thought […]
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