UVA Darden

JANUARY 12, 2023

The star analyst is now a data scientist, a private equity associate is tasked with reinventing a company’s IT instead of engineering its finances, and the marketer is now a “growth hacker” running A/B tests. The first problem I’ve observed has to do with onboarding generalists. Learn More in the Book. Alex Cowan.

A/B Testing 111

A/B Testing Engineering Digital Transformation Manager 111

Andrew Chen

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Comic books? If a customer is trying to book a restaurant in the Hayes Valley neighborhood of San Francisco, you don’t care much how many restaurants are also on the platform in Manhattan. Signup and onboarding. Optimization : A/B testing growth levers – from email/SMS/push copy – to when/how to reach out.

Marketing 0

Marketing Revenue A/B Testing Workflows 0

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this essay, I’ll aim to answer this critical question — how do you hire a Head of Growth — using parts of framework from my upcoming first book, The Cold Start Problem. At this point, I’ll take a few sentences to describe “The Cold Start Problem” — one of the central ideas in the book.

Scaling 82

Scaling Marketing Recruitment B2B 82

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. We then called these hosts to help them convert their requests into bookings. Georg Bauser, ex-International Expansion at Airbnb.

User Experience 111

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 111

Walk Me

JULY 18, 2022

When change is incentivized by change leaders right from the point of employee onboarding , staff see that it is helpful and easy to implement. Xerox Corporation’s Robert C Camp developed benchmarking and popularized the subject by writing a book on it. Staff then integrate change into their existing beliefs and skills.

Change Management 59

Change Management Manager Benchmarking Strategic Planning 59

Andrew Chen

JUNE 25, 2019

As the number of homes on Airbnb scaled from around 100,000 in 2012 to over 6 million today, I led teams tackling everything from supply growth, to guest booking conversion, to marketplace quality. We then called these hosts to help them convert their requests into bookings. Georg Bauser, ex-International Expansion at Airbnb.

User Experience 48

User Experience Retention Marketing Travel 48

Andrew Chen

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Of course, as an investor you can’t run A/B tests or analyze results directly, but you can form hypotheses, ideate, and apply the same type of thinking. One evolution is the number of books and conferences now dedicated to growth. Education during onboarding helps too.

Metrics 111

Metrics Scaling Marketing Media 111