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How do the greatest companies win?
Here's how I can help you learn from (and apply) their playbooks
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5-Bit Fridays: The magic of small engineering teams, mastering the founder letter, The Traction Framework, how to evaluate a company, and…
Plus a simple marketing & positioning tactic used by Notion
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Is this thing on?
How and why to use the default adoption trick
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How Roblox Grows: From Virtual Playground to Global Empire
 • Jaryd Hermann and Rex Woodbury
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Who even asked for spatial computing?
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How Figma Grows: Design Beyond Designers
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How Arc Grows: Building The New Window Into The Internet
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How Zapier Grows: Automating Growth
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How Miro Grows: Tactical Lessons From The $17.5B Whiteboard
 • Jaryd Hermann and Aakash Gupta
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How They Grow

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How CommandBar Grows: Owning the PLG-as-a-Service Layer
Never forget Clippy, “The fucking clown”
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Jaryd Hermann
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How Dovetail Grows: 15 ideas you can borrow from their journey building the $1B insights hub
One of the most actionable and genuine interviews I've ever had, with founder/CEO Benjamin Humphrey
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How Shopify Grows: Part 2
An interview with Bobby Morrison, Shopify's CRO, on how Shopify is winning the enterprise game
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How Attio Grows: The Playbook For Disrupting a $280B Giant
Lessons on launching a B2B product, pricing, B-17 bombers, The Chef Flywheel, mastering PLG, and lots more
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How Amplitude Grows: Making Moneyballers
Lessons, playbooks, and tactical product strategies from building Amplitude
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How Figma Grows: Design Beyond Designers
From $20B to the Nth. An interview with Figma's CTO on what's next.
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How Arc Grows: Building The New Window Into The Internet
Lessons on avoiding the competition, building what people don't know they need, ignoring the numbers, and so much more
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How beehiiv Grows: Becoming The Sweetest Newsletter Platform
Tactical lessons from 0 to a $100M startup in 2.5 years
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Jaryd Hermann
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How Cash App Grows: Becoming King For Block’s $24B Commerce Stack
The innovation stack, obsessing over distribution, leveraging cultural cachet as an advantage and moat, and breaking away in a crowded FinTech market…
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How Zapier Grows: Automating Growth
Lessons on scaling to $230M+ ARR, acquiring 3M+ users, and reaching a $5B valuation with just $1.3 million in funding.
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How Miro Grows: Tactical Lessons From The $17.5B Whiteboard
A masterclass on how to drive SaaS growth. Plus, what we can learn about the PLG Iceberg, product-led sales, 4 different community growth strategies…
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Jaryd Hermann
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Aakash Gupta
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How Nvidia Grows: The Engine for AI and The Catalyst Of The Future
A pure strategic masterclass from Nvidia's trillion-dollar accelerated computing empire
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Learn how the best businesses win.

Why They Died

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Why WeWork Died: Lessons from the plight of a $47B t̶e̶c̶h̶ ̶s̶t̶a̶r̶t̶u̶p̶ landlord
Fugazis, hubristic leadership, legal theft, over expansion, zealots vs pragmatists, and more.
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Why Zume Died: How Melting Cheese Burnt a $2.3B Pizza Delivery Startup Run By Robots
Cautionary lessons on over-indexing on technology, creating a big value gap, failing to focus, and making big disruptive pivots.
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Why Quibi Died: The $2B Dumpster Fire That Was Supposed to Revolutionize Hollywood
Unpacking 7 Reasons Why the "Netflix for your phone" shut down in just 6 months, and lessons from our second trip to the startup graveyard
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Why Vine Died: Closing The Loop On The Company That Changed The Internet
Lessons to be learned from our first trip to the startup graveyard.
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From The Garden

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Is this thing on?
How and why to use the default adoption trick
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The New Couch Problem
How to find the invisible obstacles in your users' lives that demotivate them from buying
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Who even asked for spatial computing?
The inflection point. Everything or Nothing. And the one thing you can do about it.
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Good Acquisition, Bad Acquisition
Why M&A, what makes a horrible (and home run) deal, and real life examples of both
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5-Bit Fridays

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5-Bit Fridays: The magic of small engineering teams, mastering the founder letter, The Traction Framework, how to evaluate a company, and…
Plus a simple marketing & positioning tactic used by Notion
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5-Bit Fridays: Where To Play/How To Win, taking bolder bets, the name trick, and more
Plus an idea around retaining some value during self-cancellations
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5-Bit Fridays: UX blunders, the cardinal sin, the ROI of beauty, and managing up
Also, one idea on how to create a very unique customer testimonials page
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Jaryd Hermann
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5-Bit Fridays: Power user strategies, the power of 'no' in your next negotiation, losing your competitiveness, and more
Plus two quick-and-easy growth ideas to try
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5-Bit Fridays: Doing things right vs doing the right thing, simplicity scales; complexity fails, and your untapped growth lever
Plus two quick-and-easy growth ideas to try
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Jaryd Hermann
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5-Bit Fridays: Try this approach to finding a startup idea
Also, why you should be sincere (and not serious), and deliberately break your routine
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How They Grow
Learn how the greatest companies are winning, with actionable deep dives into their growth motions, strategic playbooks, products, and founding stories.
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Why They Died
The occasional investigation into what caused once high-flying companies to fail, and of course, the lessons to be learned.
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From The Garden
Short essays on one useful idea, often expanding on topics uncovered during company deep dives.
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5-Bit Fridays
The weekly 5-minute morning roundup of 5 actionable insights that can help you build and grow your product.
How They Grow
How They Grow
Learn how the greatest companies are winning, with actionable deep dives into their growth motions, strategic playbooks, products, and founding stories.
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