“Growth Isn't Magic, It's a Weekly Habit”
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Title: Hacking Growth
Author: Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown
Category: Sales, Branding & Marketing, Startups & Entrepreneurship, Career Growth, Motivation & Self-Improvement
What if growth isn't a big-budget gamble but a weekly habit you practice? Sam and Sophie open Hacking Growth with that question, and it reframes everything that follows.
The episode walks through the book's core sequence: the 40 percent test for must-have product, the dedicated cross-functional growth team, and the High Tempo Testing loop of analysis, hypothesis, ICE scoring, and sharing learnings company-wide. They also cover the AARRR framework with real examples — Airbnb's Craigslist integration, Twitter's thirty-follow onboarding insight, and Dropbox's referral storage.
If you've ever been tempted to skip straight to tactics before product-market fit, this one is for you. The takeaway: growth is a discipline of small, measured experiments, not a lucky break.
Hacking Growth by Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown. For the full written summary, the whole library is on 7minutebooks.com/app — over 6,000 fiction and nonfiction titles you can read or listen to in any language, with infographics on many titles. Unlimited access from $2.99 a month, $9.99 a year, or $19.99 lifetime.
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00:00Why Growth Hacking Replaced Big Budgets00:55The 40 Percent Must-Have Test01:56Building A Dedicated Growth Team02:58High Tempo Testing And ICE Scoring04:16AARRR: Acquisition To Referral06:02Scaling Growth Inside Big Companies
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