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6 entries
Growth
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The T2D3 Path to SaaS Growth and $1B Valuation
T2D3 — triple, triple, double, double, double — is the canonical growth trajectory for B2B SaaS companies targeting a $1B valuation. A useful benchmark for understanding what 'good' ARR growth looks like at each stage.
On Self-Importance and What Actually Changes
A tweet from @jdh: 'I think, but I am not sure, that the only thing that changed was my sense of self importance?' — on what actually changes when you succeed or improve. The epistemic humility of the framing is the point.
Machine Learning for Growth — Zipfian Academy Workshop
Zipfian Academy's Machine Learning for Growth workshop — a short-format course on applying ML to product growth problems like churn prediction, A/B testing, and cohort analysis. Reflects the 2014 convergence of data science with growth hacking.
Raw Nerve
Aaron Swartz's Raw Nerve is a collection of essays about psychology, self-improvement, and confronting uncomfortable truths about how we think. Written in late 2012, these are among his most personal and intellectually honest posts.
What a Hacker Learns After a Year in Marketing
A software engineer reflects on a year spent working in marketing, describing what surprised them about how products get positioned and sold. The key lesson: engineers often build for other engineers, while marketing forces you to think about the actual customer's frame of reference.
An Unexpected Ass Kicking
Joel Runyon's essay on having a chance conversation with a successful stranger that completely reframed his sense of what's possible. The core lesson: most people dramatically underestimate what they could accomplish if they simply committed to taking action.