Ted Glasnow

products that are much harder to replicate the performance, the taste and texture of animal proteins. What comes to mind are hard cheeses, and cheese shreds, and mimicking the meltability of real cheese. Or dairy broadly, beyond just milks, it’s really hard to replicate certain dairy applications. Seafood has also been an emerging next frontier for... See more

companies grow primarily through four possible Growth Engines:1) Performance marketing: FB, AdWords, TV, etc.2) Virality: Word-of-mouth, referrals, inviting friends, etc.3) Content: SEO, shareable videos, or newsletters, etc.4) Sales: Outbound (and inbound) salespeople.

There are two additional types of growth engines that we’ve seen — Partnerships... See more

- Ben learned more from interviewing executive candidates than anything else 

Curious people are the best sales hires

Customer.io is mainly focused on serving SMBs and startups

Home improvement is...almost a $500 billion market. $250 billion of that is home center sales...About half of that is probably pros or semi-pros directly. The other half is homeowners, small business owners, and folks that would be in our market... the scope of what we can do there—with 20% of homeowners being digital natives now—is probably a $10... See more