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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. after a great experience).

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What to look for when you’re hiring a Head of Growth

Andrew Chen

For example, the Acquisition Effect is powered by viral growth and the user experience that compels one set of users to invite their others into the network. If they’re paired with advisors and operators who are experts on the playbook, that can work well. There were projects to help with A/B testing (Morpheus!),

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28 ways to grow supply in a marketplace — by Lenny Rachitsky, ex-Airbnb

Andrew Chen

This includes call-outs in the top level nav, in the footer of every screen, and sprinkled throughout the user experience. Tips : If most of your supply growth is coming from word-of-mouth, and especially if your users have large social graphs, then a referrals program is going to be huge for you. after a great experience).

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Instead of Optimizing Processes, Reimagine Them as Platforms

Harvard Business Review

Process optimization can transform user experience. Challenging people to visualize processes as platforms completely changes how trade-offs between innovation, optimization, and user experience are debated and discussed. Not all business processes can – or should – be re-conceptualized as platforms.

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The Kinds of Data Scientist

Harvard Business Review

These data scientists design, define, and implement metrics, run and interpret experiments, create dashboards, draw causal inferences, and generate recommendations from modeling and measurement. In larger and more sophisticated data operations, more fine-grained roles are necessary. In larger operations, each may be a team unto itself.

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Every Company Needs a Growth Manager

Harvard Business Review

They work cross-functionally with engineering, design, analytics, product management, operations, and marketing to design and execute growth initiatives. These include everything from analytics tools like Adobe Analytics and Google Analytics, to A/B testing tools like Oracle’s Maxymiser and Optimizely.

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How Spotify Balances Employee Autonomy and Accountability

Harvard Business Review

This unusual combination of squads, tribes, chapters, and guilds is the organizational infrastructure that underlies Spotify’s operating model. Spotify has an experiment-friendly culture with an emphasis on test-and-learn approaches and contained experiments. Spotify fosters alignment without excessive control.