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The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth — 75 episodes
Fiverr. How a $5 Gimmick Became a Global Marketplace
Envato. How Vertical Expansion Bootstrapped a Nine-Figure Exit
Teachable. The Anti-Marketplace That Built a Creator Empire
Kajabi. How Product Cannibalization Fueled a $2 Billion Flywheel
Thinkific. How Manual Work and Marketing Turned a $29 Course Into a Billion-Dollar Platform
Plaid. How Developer-First Marketing Turned Bank Plumbing Into a Trusted Brand
Lemon Squeezy. How a Bootstrap Mindset Built a Path to Acquisition
Robinhood. How Viral Ingenuity Built a Financial Empire
Klarna. How a Pink Rebrand Built a Global Fintech Moat
Wistia. How Twenty Years of Content Conviction Beat the Venture Playbook
Outreach. How Category Design Turned Outbound Sales Into a $4 Billion Category
6sense. How Listening to the Dark Funnel Built a $5 Billion Revenue Engine
Clearbit. How Radical Simplicity Scaled to a $150M Exit
SendGrid. How Community-Led Marketing Fueled a $3 Billion Ascent
MongoDB. How Guerilla Marketing Built a $30 Billion Data Moat
Elementor. How Community Turned a Plugin into a Global Platform
Hostinger. How Customer Obsession Became a Global Growth Engine
Cloudways. How Educational Marketing Simplified the Cloud
SiteGround. How Marketing Maverickism Drove Product Innovation
The Browser Company. How Radical Transparency Built a $610 Million Story
Attio. How a 1,000-Day Gamble Redefined CRM
Airtable. How High-Signal Marketing Defined the No-Code Era
n8n. How Community Adoption Built the "Excel of AI"
Make.com. How an SEO Gamble Fueled a Global Rise
Midjourney. How Social Distribution Redefined Product-Led Growth
OpenAI. How Iterative Deployment Turned a Research Lab Into an Infrastructure Giant
Dribbble. How Community Marketing Engineered a Marketplace
Behance. How Unscalable Marketing Solved the Cold-Start Problem
Product Hunt. How Community and Ritual Built a Launchpad
Goodreads. How a Reading Community Became a Growth Engine
Booking. How Performance Marketing Became the Product Itself
Pinterest. How Scarcity and Curation Engineered Its Growth
LinkedIn. How Built-In Distribution Solved the Cold-Start Problem
Twitter. How a 140-Character Limit Became a Growth Engine
Webflow. How Conviction and Marketing Agility Built a Category
Riverside. How Broken Attribution Nearly Capped a Rocket Ship
Gumroad. How Radical Transparency Rebuilt a Company From the Ashes
Patreon. How Escaping the Algorithm Powered Its Growth
Medium. How Solving Distribution Became Its Growth Engine
Substack. How a Writer Network Became Its Own Marketing Engine Episode Description
Kit. How a Near-Dead Side Project Became a Bootstrapped Creator Empire
Behiiv. How a Morning Brew Engineer Took On Substack and Rebuilt Newsletter Infrastructure
Workday. How Product and Marketing Reshaped Enterprise Software
Deel. How Content Authority and Brand Aura Powered Global Scale
Wise. How Transparency Became Both Product and Marketing
Paddle. How a Failed Storefront Became a Payments Powerhouse
PayPal. How Viral Marketing and Product Agility Built an Empire
Buffer. How Content and Radical Transparency Built a Moat
Ahrefs. How Product-Led Content Built a Bootstrapped SEO Giant
PartnerStack. How a Failed Messaging App Became a $3 Billion Distribution Engine
Drift. How Category Creation Turned a Chatbot Into a Movement
Intercom. How a Chat Bubble Became a $3.6 Billion AI Bet
ActiveCampaign. How Product Focus and Community Powered Quiet Growth
Brevo. How Marketing Discipline Quietly Reshaped Its Product
Typeform. How Taste and Marketing Engineered Product Growth
DocuSign. How Trust, Integration, and AI Built an Agreement Empire
Miro. How Category Creation Turned a Whiteboard Into a Platform
Mural. How Guided Structure Turned a Whiteboard Into a Platform
Dropbox. How a Referral Loop Replaced the Ad Budget
Asana. How the Work Graph Powers Its Agentic Bet
ClickUp. How a Contrarian Bet on Convergence Paid Off
Stack Overflow. How an Audience Came Before the Product
Databricks. How Naming a Category Became a Growth Engine
Okta. How Strategic Neutrality Built the Control Plane of Identity
Twilio. How Developer Trust Became Its Growth Engine
Synthesia. How Utility Beat Novelty in AI Video
Jasper. How Marketing Strategy Built an AI Unicorn From a Failed Startup
ElevenLabs. How a Voice Startup Engineered Its Own Virality
Descript. How the Backspace Key Replaced the Editing Timeline
Cursor. How Product-Led Growth Replaced the Marketing Budget
Anthropic. How Restraint Became a Competitive Advantage
Calendly. How Product-Led Growth Built a Scheduling Standard
Loom. How a Shareable Product Became Its Own Marketing
Zapier. How Marketing and Distribution Became the Product
Grammarly. The Growth Machine Behind Confident Writing