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Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | Career10 growth tactics that never work | Elena Verna (Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, SurveyMonkey)Elena Verna is one of Silicon Valley’s most sought-after growth advisors and operators. She previously led growth at companies like Amplitude, Miro, Dropbox, and SurveyMonkey and is currently doing full-time advising for high-growth tech companies. In our conversation, Elena and I discuss:• 10 growth tactics that never work• Her 3 favorite growth frameworks• How to increase your career optionality—Brought to you by:• Sinch—Build messaging, email, and calling into your product• Vanta—Automate compliance. Simplify security• OneSchema—Import CSV data 10x faster—Find the tra...2025-01-191h 35
Unsolicited FeedbackKey Takeaways from H1 2024 (Part 1) w/ Brian Balfour, Ravi Mehta, Joff Redfern, and Fareed MosavatKey Takeaways from H1 2024: Reflecting on Hardware, Unstructured Data, and the Future of Product ManagementIn the season 2 finale of 'Unsolicited Feedback,' co-hosts Brian Balfour, Ravi Mehta, and Joff Redfern join Fareed Mosavat to reflect on the most compelling topics of the season. They start with discussions on how trends diverge between hardware and software markets, and the distinctions between luxury and premium products. The episode takes a deep dive into AI's role in revolutionizing unstructured data and its far-reaching effects on product management. Touching on methodology changes, the hosts contemplate how AI might transform the...2024-06-041h 04
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerThe ultimate guide to product-led sales | Elena VernaBrought to you by Linear—The new standard for modern software development | Braintrust—For when you needed talent, yesterday | Rows—The spreadsheet where data comes to life—Elena Verna is a leading growth expert with over 15 years of experience in tech. She was SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey and interim CMO at Miro, where she built high-performing teams that drove significant growth. She recently served as interim Head of Growth at Amplitude and currently advises and is a board member for early-stage startups. In today’s podcast, we discuss:• What product-led sales is• How p...2023-04-231h 16
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerCareer frameworks, A/B testing mistakes, counterintuitive onboarding tips, selling to developers | Laura Schaffer (VP of Growth at Amplitude)Brought to you by Public—Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments | Writer—Generative AI for the enterprise—Laura Schaffer is the brand-new VP of Growth at Amplitude. Prior to this role, she spent over 10 years leading product management and growth teams at Twilio, Bandwidth, and Rapid. In today’s episode, we talk about the role of experimentation and data in growth, and Laura shares stories of big wins from her time leading growth teams. She explains how customer insights helped her uplevel her career and how she (surprisingly) thinks about qual...2023-03-091h 21
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerMastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)Brought to you by Public—Invest in stocks, treasuries, crypto, and more: https://public.com/lenny | Miro—A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: https://miro.com/lenny | Eppo—Run reliable, impactful experiments: https://www.geteppo.com/—Lauryn Isford is a product growth leader and practitioner, who most recently led Growth at Airtable, and is about to start something new 🤫. In today’s episode, we get into the many tactics Lauryn has learned about optimizing onboarding flows. Lauryn describes how overhauling Airtable’s onboarding led to a 20% increase in activation rate, the company’s u...2023-02-121h 04
Dünya TrendleriGrowth Yaklaşımı Neden Önemli? - Konuk: Mars Athletic Chief Digital Officer Mümtaz Demirci147.Bölümde Lumost podcastinden tanıdığımız Mars Athletic'te Chief Digital Officer (CDO) olarak görev yapan Mümtaz Demirci konuğum oldu. Dijital dönüşüm stratejileri geliştiriyor ve yeni projeler üretmeye devam ediyor.(00:00) - Açılış(03:24) - Mümtaz Demirci'yi tanıyoruz.(04:00) - Podcaste neden başladın?(05:22) - Growth nedir? Son yıllarda neden daha fazla duymaya başladık?Eric Peters - Lenny Rachitsky - Andrew Chan - Shannon Ellis - Elena Verna - Brian Balfour - Casey WintersFacebook örneği Growth ya...2023-01-0852 min
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerCountdown of the top 10 episodes of the yearIf you ever wanted to distill 3,310 hours of knowledge into 60 minutes, then this episode is for you. For the last 6 months, Lenny’s Podcast has been downloaded more than 2 million times and is now a top 10 technology podcast across both Apple and Spotify. And in this special episode, I’m breaking down the top 10 most downloaded episodes, plus sharing my favorite lessons from each. It's unlike anything I've done before, and I hope you love it. Happy holidays, happy new year, and from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for listening, sharing, and for supporting the podc...2022-12-291h 01
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerHow to grow a subscription business | Yuriy Timen (Grammarly, Canva, Airtable)Yuriy Timen was Global Head of Marketing and Growth at Grammarly, and is now a full-time growth advisor, having worked with more than a dozen companies, including Canva, Airtable, Whimsical, Otter.ai, Oyster, Flo Health, and Clay. In today’s episode, Yuriy discusses the ever-changing world of growth, emerging growth tactics, and how to find your growth engine. You’ll learn the most effective strategies for driving user acquisition, how to balance and diversify organic and paid channels, when it’s time to change plans, how to vet new growth channel opportunities, and much more.—Find the full tra...2022-09-011h 08
Lenny's Podcast: Product | Growth | CareerElena Verna on how B2B growth is changing, product-led growth, product-led sales, why you should go freemium not trial, what features to make free, and much moreElena Verna has led growth at some of today’s most successful B2B businesses, including Miro as CMO, Surveymonkey as SVP of Growth, and now at Amplitude as interim Head of Growth. She’s also worked closely with over a dozen companies on growth and product strategy, including companies like MongoDB, Clockwise, and Netlify (where she sits on the board of directors). Elena is undoubtedly one of the smartest people on growth strategy in the world.—Thank you to our sponsors for making this episode possible:• Persona: https://withpersona.com/lenny• Styt...2022-06-2359 min