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Slack’s Rachel Hepworth on bringing growth marketing to a high growth company

Intercom, Inc.

In August of 2016, Rachel Hepworth embarked on a unique challenge: start a growth marketing team at one of the most successful startups of this generation – one that had long relied heavily on word of mouth. This is the second in a series of interviews over the next couple months about unlocking the potential of growth.

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Who’s who: Understanding your business with customer segmentation

Intercom, Inc.

For example, our Finance team is now able to confirm whether new customer growth is up in our target segments. If your customers tend to be larger, public companies, then segmenting by revenue and size is reasonable, as most report financial results and headcount on a quarterly basis. Assessing progress on our strategy.

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Three million downloads and counting: Inside Intercom reaches a podcasting milestone

Intercom, Inc.

Rachel Hepworth: Introducing growth marketing to Slack. Liam Geraghty: But first, how do you bring growth marketing to a high-growth company? Rachel now leads the marketing team at Notion, but back then, in 2018, Rachel was head of growth marketing at Slack. Here’s Rachel.