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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

In a kind of analogous way, everyone uses the Internet now, which wasn’t true certainly, when we started Flickr, in late 2003. In any event, in our case, the growth hacking worked from a top of the funnel perspective, but it was not closing deals. Jason : Marketing can drive daily active users as their core metric too.

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Product Led, but People Focused

OpenView Labs

The first time I worked with Steve was back in 2003. To get from 2 percent to 40 percent took a lot of growth hacking. The product led growth mindset is a focus not only of our product and growth squad teams, but of our entire organization. The Catalyst – The Hybrid Product/Human Solution.