6. How to Do Take Home Assignments for Growth Hires
Make it as real as possible.
Make it quantitative.
Understand what good looks like before you send the test out.
What’s the most effective way to structure take-home assignments for growth hires to ensure real-world applicability @onecaseman@mgonto?
5. Is Growth About Incremental Improvements or Needle Moving Moments?
You need to have both.
You need some buckets of bets that are high risk, high reward.
You also need a few high confidence bets that will give you 2-5% improvements.
Is sustainable growth built on small optimizations, big bets, or a mix of both @acton@jasonfried@antonosika ?
4. How Good Leaders Delegate
A good leader needs to know how to do everyone’s job but poorly.
They can step in if needed or be dangerous enough to ask the right questions.
If they know how to do the job better than the people they hired, they did not hire the right people.
How do you balance knowing enough to guide your team vs. too much micromanagement @typesfast@eoghan@dittycheria?
3. Three Ways to Find Experiments That Work in Growth
Three areas:
- Learn academically: Read books, learn what’s worked for other companies.
- Learn from peers: Learn from other growth people.
- Learn from niches: Learn from other verticals.
What is your single biggest advice for people who want to scale the learning curve on a new topic fast @sahilbloom@AlexHormozi@tedcooke ?
2. How to Find Alpha in Growth Marketing Channels
There are two ways to find alpha in growth marketing:
1. Do something no one else knows
2. Or no one believes will work
Early advertisers on TikTok probably had huge returns.
Direct mail became one of the most successful channels for us when no one thought it would work.
What channel is most unloved but has the highest potential today @ElenaVerna@ramanrmalik ?
So Ramp is a fricking machine.
💵 $350M in revenue
⏱️ 30 months to $100M ARR 🤯
👥 27,000 customers
🧑💻1,200 employees
Behind all of this is a perfectly constructed growth engine.
Time to break it down with @georgebonaci👇
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