Growth with Matt Bilotti
113 episodes - English - Latest episode: almost 2 years ago - ★★★★★ - 26 ratings“Growth” has inundated the tech scene, but for many of us, it’s really just a phrase (and few can actually explain what it means). Drift’s Senior Product Lead, Matt Bilotti, is tired of just nodding and smiling at the term. So every other Wednesday, he meets with other growth experts for 30 minutes to learn how they drive revenue through all sorts of growth strategies, tactics, and channels. Tune in for insights from companies like Shopify, Disney+, and Github.
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Episodes
A Special Message from Matt
May 06, 2022 07:00 - 5 minutes - 4.71 MBThe Past, Present & Future of Growth (with Guillaume "G" Cabane, HyperGrowth Partners)
May 04, 2022 07:00 - 39 minutes - 35.9 MBLevel Up Your Growth Teams with Design Research (Laura Oxenfeld, UX Research Manager at Drift)
April 27, 2022 16:08 - 29 minutes - 27.5 MBHere's Your Handbook to Growth Engineering (w/ Ram Navan, Airtable)
April 13, 2022 07:00 - 49 minutes - 45 MBThree Product-Led Growth Motions to Scale Your Online Business Strategy (w/ Rajan Sheth, Growth Advisor)
March 30, 2022 16:00 - 38 minutes - 35.2 MBThe Secret to Unlocking More Growth at Your Company? Content. (w/ Julie Zhou and Shae Henrie, AdRoll)
March 16, 2022 07:00 - 34 minutes - 31.8 MBDrive Growth through Education (Mark Kilens, Drift)
March 02, 2022 05:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MBWhy Your Growth Team Shouldn't Be Focused on Winning (Willie Tran, Calendly)
February 16, 2022 08:00 - 42 minutes - 38.8 MBHow Growth Teams and Partner Programs Can (And Should) Work Together (with Matt Nicosia and Chris Samila of Crossbeam)
February 02, 2022 08:00 - 36 minutes - 37.2 MBWe’ve talked a lot about the different areas of growth on this podcast, but there’s one topic we still haven’t hit: partnerships. Partnerships go hand in hand with growth - creating a channel for companies to expand. In this episode, Chris Samila, VP of Partnerships at Crossbeam, and Matt Nicosia, Director of Growth at Crossbeam discuss different examples of partnerships and how they play a role in growth. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your...
How Growth Teams and Partner Programs Can (And Should) Work Together (Matt Nicosia and Chris Samila of Crossbeam)
February 02, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.2 MBWhat Makes a Successful ABM Strategy? (Rachael Tiow, Auth0)
January 19, 2022 08:00 - 34 minutes - 31.4 MBThe First 8 Activities to Do with Your Growth Team in 2022
January 05, 2022 08:00 - 8 minutes - 7.89 MBHow to Scale from a Product-Led to Sales-Led Growth Model (with Holly Chen of ExponentialX)
December 22, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB8 Plays Growth Experts Can Steal from the World of NFTs
December 08, 2021 21:00 - 14 minutes - 13.6 MBHow to Increase Your Homepage's Conversion Rate by 40% with Video (w/ Danielle Diamond, Epiq Media)
November 24, 2021 08:00 - 26 minutes - 24.6 MBE-commerce Funnel Metrics (w/ Connor Gross, co-founder, Respoke Collection)
November 10, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBStarting Your Own Growth Marketing Agency (with Annie Mosbacher, Co-founder & Chief Strategy Officer at Decoded Strategies)
October 27, 2021 07:00 - 27 minutes - 24.8 MB[Rebroadcast] Building A New Use Case To Unlock A Growth Lever (With Annie Mosbacher And Jason Meer)
October 13, 2021 07:00 - 38 minutes - 35.3 MBHappy International Podcast Day
September 30, 2021 07:00 - 1 minute - 1.22 MBTop Marketing Skills You Need to Know in Order to Master Growth (w/ Morgan Brown & Lindsay Craig of Shopify)
September 29, 2021 07:00 - 26 minutes - 24.2 MBBuilding a Startups Program (w/ Brianne Kimmel, Founder & Manager Partner of Worklife Ventures)
September 15, 2021 07:00 - 33 minutes - 30.3 MBLeveraging Your Network as a Growth Channel (w/ Kris Rudeegraap, CEO and Co-Founder of Sendoso)
September 01, 2021 07:00 - 20 minutes - 18.6 MBThe Do's and Don'ts of Building Products on Top of Existing Ecosystems (w/ Ankith Harathi of Macro)
August 18, 2021 07:00 - 24 minutes - 22.2 MBLearning GitHub’s Approach to Implementing Product Qualified Leads (w/ Thibault Imbert & Morgane Palomares of GitHub))
August 04, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBWhat the heck is a PQL? And how is one of the best tech companies out there implementing it? While it stands for product qualified lead, what that actually means is a little different for every company. In this episode, VP of Growth Thibault Imbert and senior director of revenue marketing, Morgan Palomares, of GitHub, explain how they define a product qualified lead, how they are implementing the mindset and workflows at Github, and how they plan to measure success. Like this episode? Be su...
Learning GitHub’s Approach to Implementing Product Qualified Leads (w/ Thibault Imbert & Morgane Palomares of GitHub)
August 04, 2021 07:00 - 29 minutes - 26.6 MBHow to Optimize for Revenue Expansion (w/ Hana Abaza, Director of Global Marketing at Shopify)
July 21, 2021 07:00 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBBalancing a Portfolio of Moonshots & Incremental Bets (w/ VPs of Growth: Morgan Brown: Shopify, Hila Qu: GitLab, & Thibault Imbert: GitHub)
July 07, 2021 10:47 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBBalancing A Portfolio Moonshots & Incremental Bets (w/ VPs of Growth: Morgan Brown [Shopify], Hila Qu [GitLab], & Thibault Imbert [GitHub])
July 07, 2021 10:47 - 42 minutes - 39.2 MBStriking the right balance between incremental improvements and big, channel or market-shifting bets on a growth team is critical. In this episode, we talk through how three growth legends think about striking this balance, what good looks like, what systems they use, how team size and structure alters their approach, and what they do if their team is falling off track. The folks in this episode were all guests multiple times before on the podcast: Morgan Brown, VP of Growth at Shopify Hila ...
What Good Looks Like After 6 Months For a New Growth Team (W/ Hila Qu, VP of Growth at GitLab and Thibault Imbert, VP of Growth at GitHub)
June 23, 2021 13:34 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBWhen spinning up a new growth team, the first 6 months is often treated as the time for the team to prove it's value. But what about after that? What does good look like at that 6 month mark and how do you continue to evolve from there? We'll talk through all of this and more with Hila Qu, VP of Growth at GitLab and Thibault Imbert, VP of Growth at GitHub. Like this episode? Be sure to subscribe, leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review, and share the pod with your friends! You can connect with Matt B...
What Good Looks Like After 6 Months for a New Growth Team (W/ Hila Qu, VP of Growth at GitLab and Thibault Imbert, VP of Growth at GitHub)
June 23, 2021 13:34 - 46 minutes - 42.8 MBWhat A Good First Growth Hire Looks Like (With Hila Qu, VP of Growth at GitLab)
June 09, 2021 10:37 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBThe very first growth hire on any team is an absolutely critical one. In this episode, Hila (VP of Growth at GitLab) and Matt break down how you should approach that first hire from a focus, skill set, seniority, and structure standpoint. Lots of insights from this conversation both for the folks doing the hiring and the ones trying to be that first hire. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends! You can connect with Matt and Hila on Twit...
What a Good First Growth Hire Looks Like (With Hila Qu, VP of Growth at GitLab)
June 09, 2021 10:37 - 33 minutes - 30.9 MBWhy Your Attempts at PLG Aren't Working (With Morgan Brown, VP of Growth at Shopify and Laura Borghesi, VP of Growth at ClassPass))
May 26, 2021 10:23 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBWhy Your Attempts At PLG Aren't Working (With Morgan Brown, VP of Growth at Shopify and Laura Borghesi, VP of Growth at ClassPass))
May 26, 2021 10:23 - 25 minutes - 23.5 MBMany see Product Led Growth (PLG) as a sure-ticket to growth. But often times, it doesn't work out. With two industry leaders, Morgan Brown (VP of Growth at Shopify) & Laura Borghesi (VP of Growth at ClassPass), we talk all about when PLG works, when it doesn't, and how you can up your chances of success. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends! You can connect with Matt Bilotti, Morgan Brown, and Laura Borghesi on Twitter at @MattBilott...
How to Think About Intent Data for Your Marketing & Growth Campaigns (with Kate Athmer, VP of Growth at Bombora)
May 12, 2021 09:00 - 24 minutes - 22.1 MBWhat's The Difference Between a Growth Product Manager and a Regular Product Manager?
April 28, 2021 13:37 - 7 minutes - 6.85 MBThis is a question I hear all the time. In this episode, I break down some of the ownership, skill set, and strategic differences between operating in a growth-focused product manager role vs. a classic product management role on a product team. Like this episode? Be sure to leave a ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ review and share the pod with your friends! You can connect with Matt Bilotti on Twitter at @MattBilotti and @DriftPodcasts
What's the Difference Between a Growth Product Manager and a Regular Product Manager?
April 28, 2021 13:37 - 7 minutes - 6.85 MBGrowth in Places of Ambiguity (W/ Morgan Brown, VP of Growth at Shopify and Thibault Imbert, VP of Growth at GitHub)
April 14, 2021 10:20 - 42 minutes - 38.6 MBGetting Back To Fundamentals on an Often Overlooked Growth Channel...Email! (w/ Ilona Abramova, VP of Operations at AppSumo)
March 17, 2021 11:33 - 26 minutes - 24 MBWhat Growth Tactics Look Like In A Two Sided Marketplace: Lessons Learned At Bird (with Declan Bond Schweitzer, VP Growth at Albert)
March 03, 2021 11:12 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MBHow The Growth Role Has Evolved And Will Continue To Do So (With Will Wong, VP Lifecycle at Disney+ & ESPN+)
February 17, 2021 14:51 - 27 minutes - 25 MBHow To Build A Product-Led Growth Team From Start To Finish (With Melissa Tan, Growth Leader & Advisor)
February 03, 2021 11:46 - 28 minutes - 25.9 MBBalancing A Company's Social Mission With Growth Tactics (With Keya Patel, Director of Product at Headspace)
January 20, 2021 11:39 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBDissecting A Successful 10x Growth Experiment (With Matt Hurley, Director of Growth At Frase)
January 06, 2021 11:15 - 31 minutes - 28.9 MBThe Crossover Episode: Behind the Scenes with Drift's Podcast Hosts
December 30, 2020 11:00 - 28 minutes - 26 MBThe Right Questions To Ask Yourself Before Running An Experiment
December 09, 2020 12:01 - 5 minutes - 4.75 MBThe Transition From B2C Growth (At Pinterest) to B2B (With Wendy Lu, Engineering Manager at Airtable)
November 30, 2020 14:26 - 35 minutes - 32.3 MBHow To Leverage Data Science To Enable Your Org To Run Effective Experiments (With Maura Church, Director of Data Science at Patreon)
November 11, 2020 12:37 - 30 minutes - 28 MBHow to Plan, Build, Launch, And Run A Successful Account Based Marketing (ABM) Strategy (With Jon Miller, CPO of Demandbase)
October 28, 2020 10:29 - 24 minutes - 22.8 MBWhat Is The Process Of Transitioning To A Product-Led Growth Model Actually Like? (With Laura Borghesi, VP of Growth at Gympass)
October 14, 2020 11:28 - 28 minutes - 25.8 MBTransitioning to a product-led growth model is all the hype these days. I wanted to peel back some of the layers of what it actually looks like when successful, which is why I asked Laura Borghesi to join. She's currently the VP of growth at Gympass and has most recently developed a PLG motion at MongoDB with prior roles at Google and Stripe. Listen in to hear how to think about getting leadership bought in, making investments, measuring success, and more! Like this episode? Be sure to leave...