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The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth — 75 episodes

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Fiverr. How a $5 Gimmick Became a Global Marketplace

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Envato. How Vertical Expansion Bootstrapped a Nine-Figure Exit

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Teachable. The Anti-Marketplace That Built a Creator Empire

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Kajabi. How Product Cannibalization Fueled a $2 Billion Flywheel

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Thinkific. How Manual Work and Marketing Turned a $29 Course Into a Billion-Dollar Platform

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Plaid. How Developer-First Marketing Turned Bank Plumbing Into a Trusted Brand

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Lemon Squeezy. How a Bootstrap Mindset Built a Path to Acquisition

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Robinhood. How Viral Ingenuity Built a Financial Empire

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Klarna. How a Pink Rebrand Built a Global Fintech Moat

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Wistia. How Twenty Years of Content Conviction Beat the Venture Playbook

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Outreach. How Category Design Turned Outbound Sales Into a $4 Billion Category

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6sense. How Listening to the Dark Funnel Built a $5 Billion Revenue Engine

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Clearbit. How Radical Simplicity Scaled to a $150M Exit

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SendGrid. How Community-Led Marketing Fueled a $3 Billion Ascent

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MongoDB. How Guerilla Marketing Built a $30 Billion Data Moat

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Elementor. How Community Turned a Plugin into a Global Platform

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Hostinger. How Customer Obsession Became a Global Growth Engine

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Cloudways. How Educational Marketing Simplified the Cloud

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SiteGround. How Marketing Maverickism Drove Product Innovation

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The Browser Company. How Radical Transparency Built a $610 Million Story

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Attio. How a 1,000-Day Gamble Redefined CRM

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Airtable. How High-Signal Marketing Defined the No-Code Era

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n8n. How Community Adoption Built the "Excel of AI"

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Make.com. How an SEO Gamble Fueled a Global Rise

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Midjourney. How Social Distribution Redefined Product-Led Growth

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OpenAI. How Iterative Deployment Turned a Research Lab Into an Infrastructure Giant

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Dribbble. How Community Marketing Engineered a Marketplace

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Behance. How Unscalable Marketing Solved the Cold-Start Problem

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Product Hunt. How Community and Ritual Built a Launchpad

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Goodreads. How a Reading Community Became a Growth Engine

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Booking. How Performance Marketing Became the Product Itself

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Pinterest. How Scarcity and Curation Engineered Its Growth

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LinkedIn. How Built-In Distribution Solved the Cold-Start Problem

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Twitter. How a 140-Character Limit Became a Growth Engine

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Webflow. How Conviction and Marketing Agility Built a Category

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Riverside. How Broken Attribution Nearly Capped a Rocket Ship

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Gumroad. How Radical Transparency Rebuilt a Company From the Ashes

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Patreon. How Escaping the Algorithm Powered Its Growth

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Medium. How Solving Distribution Became Its Growth Engine

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Substack. How a Writer Network Became Its Own Marketing Engine Episode Description

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Kit. How a Near-Dead Side Project Became a Bootstrapped Creator Empire

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Behiiv. How a Morning Brew Engineer Took On Substack and Rebuilt Newsletter Infrastructure

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Workday. How Product and Marketing Reshaped Enterprise Software

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Deel. How Content Authority and Brand Aura Powered Global Scale

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Wise. How Transparency Became Both Product and Marketing

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Paddle. How a Failed Storefront Became a Payments Powerhouse

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PayPal. How Viral Marketing and Product Agility Built an Empire

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Buffer. How Content and Radical Transparency Built a Moat

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Ahrefs. How Product-Led Content Built a Bootstrapped SEO Giant

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PartnerStack. How a Failed Messaging App Became a $3 Billion Distribution Engine

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Drift. How Category Creation Turned a Chatbot Into a Movement

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Intercom. How a Chat Bubble Became a $3.6 Billion AI Bet

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ActiveCampaign. How Product Focus and Community Powered Quiet Growth

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Brevo. How Marketing Discipline Quietly Reshaped Its Product

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Typeform. How Taste and Marketing Engineered Product Growth

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DocuSign. How Trust, Integration, and AI Built an Agreement Empire

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Miro. How Category Creation Turned a Whiteboard Into a Platform

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Mural. How Guided Structure Turned a Whiteboard Into a Platform

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Dropbox. How a Referral Loop Replaced the Ad Budget

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Asana. How the Work Graph Powers Its Agentic Bet

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ClickUp. How a Contrarian Bet on Convergence Paid Off

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Stack Overflow. How an Audience Came Before the Product

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Databricks. How Naming a Category Became a Growth Engine

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Okta. How Strategic Neutrality Built the Control Plane of Identity

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Twilio. How Developer Trust Became Its Growth Engine

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Synthesia. How Utility Beat Novelty in AI Video

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Jasper. How Marketing Strategy Built an AI Unicorn From a Failed Startup

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ElevenLabs. How a Voice Startup Engineered Its Own Virality

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Descript. How the Backspace Key Replaced the Editing Timeline

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Cursor. How Product-Led Growth Replaced the Marketing Budget

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Anthropic. How Restraint Became a Competitive Advantage

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Calendly. How Product-Led Growth Built a Scheduling Standard

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Loom. How a Shareable Product Became Its Own Marketing

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Zapier. How Marketing and Distribution Became the Product

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Grammarly. The Growth Machine Behind Confident Writing