Ted Glasnow

"Most mistakes in growth are using the wrong growth method at the wrong time. You can think about where your product is on the S-curve of growth to understand where you should be focused. Transitioning to each stage gracefully is what separates great growth teams from the average." - Casey Winters, CPO @ Eventbrite

To promote the diffusion of best-practices, Uber has very frequent summits that brought all distributed employees together

it's hard, as Salesforce, to re-architect your entire platform to be built on top of this notion of a cloud data warehouse, especially when all these other vendors have already built tools on top of your own platform. I'm not sure how you go from point A to point B there. 

With cold email campaigns, do things that don’t scale to stand out

The more complex and fragmented the market, the more likely you will have these many-to-many relationships, which get harder to manage without a software layer.

Our argument is that fermentation has been around for centuries, that's where beer and wine and bread come from. But there is something about the fact that, on our label, we're called “a nutritional fungi protein.” 

A lot of partnerships novices don't appreciate how important it is to know which partner owns the end customer relationship