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The How Things Grow Podcast
How Things Grow is a podcast about, well, how things grow. Each episode features an interview with one of the leading growth practitioners, entrepreneurs, experts or historians in the world...
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Listen to The How Things Grow Podcast, a Business podcast by Shamanth Rao. Stream 28 episodes in English, follow new audio stories, and play episodes online on Radio and Podcast.
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20 of 28 episodesHow Things Dont Grow; Reflections on Failing To Be a Billionaire - with Sahil Lavingia (CEO at Gumroad)
My guest today is Sahil Lavingia, and this is an incredibly powerful, honest & inspiring episode. Sahil is today the founder & CEO of Gumroa...
How viral content can trigger habit change at scale - with Victoria Repa (Founder & CEO - BetterMe)
My guest today is Victoria Repa. Victoria is the founder and CEO of BetterMe, a fitness app based out of Ukraine. I'm very excited to have V...
On the art & science of making games fun - with Josh Lu(VP & Commercial Leader, Blizzard Entertainment)
My guest today is one of the leading experts in the world on games and growth in games. He's a man who who has helped launch & grow many man...
Decoding freemium, the unlikely drivers of cybersecurity adoption & more - with Elena Verna(Growth Advisor, ex SVP of Growth, Marketing, Product & Design at Malwarebytes & ex SVP of Growth at SurveyMonkey)
My guest today is Elena Verna. Elena is a growth advisor - she advises a number of companies - and helps scale businesses with marketing, pr...
The unseen forces driving mass-market adoption of technologies - 8 lessons from season 1 of How Things Grow.
In today's episode, we take a very short break from regular programming - as I present to you my talk at my alma mater, the Indian Institute...
Making the internet work, building an eCommerce business in the age of Amazon - and more; with Mauria Finley(CEO of Allume)
My guest today is Mauria Finley. Mauria has lived in very interesting times - and worked on some industry-defining products. Her first job o...
A brief history of mobile user acquisition - with Eric Seufert(Head of Platform at N3twork & Founder at MobileDevMemo)
My guest today is Eric Seufert. Eric is the Head of Platform at N3twork, the founder of MobileDevMemo.com, author of the book 'Freemium Econ...
The inner workings of internet fame - with Sophia Yeh(Influencer Manager) & Adam Hadi(VP of Marketing at Current)
Today's is a unique episode. I have two amazing guests to offer two different perspectives about a theme that I've always been very very fas...
Making design accessible to the world - with Cameron Adams(Co-founder & CPO at Canva)
My guest today is Cameron Adams. Cameron is the co-founder and Chief Product Officer at Canva, the graphic design tool website that recently...
Inside Facebook & Pinterest's growth machines - with Cat Lee(Partner at Maveron, ex Facebook & Pinterest)
My guest today is Cat Lee. Cat Lee is the newest partner at Maveron, a $160MM consumer-tech fund, primarily focused on funding hyper-growth...
The one word strategic plan - with Lomit Patel(VP of Growth at IMVU).
My guest today is Lomit Patel, VP of Growth at IMVU. Prior to IMVU, Lomit managed growth at many early stage startups including Roku (IPO),...
From hypervirality to sustainable growth - with Zack Onisko(CEO at Dribbble)
My guest today is the Zack Onisko, who is behind some incredible breakout growth stories. Zack was an early team member at Tickle, which is...
How to drive social change at scale - with Nick Allardice - VP of Product & Design at Change.org
My guest today is someone with a very unconventional background. Nick Allardice is the VP of Product & Design at Change.org. Nick started hi...
Inside Draw Something's perfect storm: from the brink to 50 million installs in 50 days: with Wilson Kriegel, CEO of HrtBeat Audio
My guest today is Wilson Kriegel - and he's going to tell us the story of a perfect storm that he lived through that in many ways shaped & p...
The original growth hacker, and inside Dropbox's blockbuster referral loop - with Sean Ellis from GrowthHackers.com
My guest today is Sean Ellis. Sean is widely regarded as the Godfather of Growth, and is credited with coining the phrase 'growth hacking'....
Season 2 intro: How Things Grow Season 2 is coming soon.
The second season of How Things Grow will become available next Monday - and will include transcripts as well. As you may know, How Things G...
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The rise of co-living - and how it's transforming urban housing and community - with Brad Hargreaves(Common, ex General Assembly)
In this episode, we talk about the phenomenon of co-living, and how it's changing urban housing and community. We go behind the scenes of th...
Tale of a city; Part 2 - New York: taking over the world - with Sam Roberts(The New York Times)
This episode is the second part of a two part story - and it features the story of New York City - and how it went from a wilderness island...