Author of Hacking Growth with over 700K copies sold worldwide. Led early growth @ Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn and Lookout. Teach growth @ GoPractice.io.
New year, new opportunities to unlock growth.
I’ve just opened up more time for bookings on @useintro, and I’m ready to help you validate and leverage product/market fit to jump-start growth.
Let’s make 2025 your breakthrough year. Book here: intro.co/seanellis
We grew @_Glasp's daily ChatGPT traffic from 500 → 19,000 in 4 months. ~37x.
Just published the full playbook as a guest post on @SeanEllis's Substack.
Most AEO tools query LLMs from the outside. We read our own server logs instead.
🎙 📆 [#podcast] @SeanEllis — the originator of growth hacking and former growth leader at Dropbox, Eventbrite, and LogMeIn — kicks off Season 7 of our podcast.
15 years later, is growth hacking still relevant?
Yes — but it’s evolved: from distribution-first tactics to a product-led discipline rooted in structured learning, staged rollouts, and sharp strategic focus.
We cover:
🔹 Growth inside complex orgs
🔹 Staged feature exposure
🔹 Finding team-level north stars
Listen here → blss.io/POD125
got hooked on hacking growth from @SeanEllis over the past few days.
wanted to go deeper, so i checked out his substack and one post instantly brought me back to another gem, paul graham’s “things that don’t scale.”
spent the whole morning on that.
open.substack.com/pub/seanel…
How do @hubspot, @zohocrm and @activecampaign stack up in AI search? 📬
We put them through the new AI Visibility Index from Subscribed.fyi and the gaps between them were surprising.
💡 Challenge for you: Assume you’ve nailed the PMF Score 40% , but retention still isn’t where it should be. What’s going on?
linkedin.com/posts/seanellis…
🚀 Outcomes > Output 🚀
It’s time we stop measuring success by how much we do & start focusing on the results we achieve.
In my latest article, I share:
✅ Why focusing on outcomes drives real growth.
✅ How tools like the North Star Metric & ICE scoring uncover what truly impacts customer value.
✅ A story from LogMeIn’s early days—where a 5% to 50% sign-up-to-usage breakthrough unlocked growth.
Let’s prioritize what matters most: customer impact.
👉 open.substack.com/pub/seanel…
New podcast episode alert! Vickie Peng, Partner at @sequoia Capital 🎙️
This episode is full of insights on what it takes to reach product/market fit!
seanellis.substack.com/p/seq…
It feels like I’m the last person who is still using @evernote
Anyone know if there is a way to move my notes to a different service?
It keeps getting worse and they keep cranking the price up. In two years, it’s gone from $45 to $64 to $114.
Finally motivating me to cancel!