The Growth Equation
Join Rahul and Greg on their journey to discover the elusive Growth Equation. They endeavor to figure out exactly what it takes to build high performance companies, teams, and business functions by interviewing incredible entrepreneurs, innovators, and growth leaders.
Episodes
27 episodes
How to be a Resilient Entrepreneur, the untold stories of being a founder with Erik Severinghaus
In one of our favorite episodes to date we had the pleasure of bringing on Erik Severinghaus a multiple time founder and current VP of strategy and development at Conexiom. Erik also has successfully scaled and climbed Mount Everest and talks a...
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Season 1
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Episode 27
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48:37
Life of the first growth hire when scaling with Peter Zhi, Growth at AllyO
In Today's episode of The Growth Equation we got to bring on Peter Zhi, The first growth hire at AllyO. Peter got to share his perspective of what life is like being the first growth hire and what growth means when you go from seed stage to all...
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Season 2
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Episode 26
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34:59
How to disrupt an industry and scale 10X Growth with Stephany Lapierre, CEO of Tealbook
Have you ever wonder what it is like to scale a fast growing company in an industry that is getting disrupted? Well in today's episode of the Growth Equation we got to bring on Steph, CEO of Tealbook. Steph is a two time entrepreneur who succes...
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Season 2
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Episode 25
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30:21
Building a Biz Ops Team that drives 10X Growth with Ralph Sadowski
In today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure to bring on Ralph Sadowski, Senior Biz Ops Manager at Shopify. Ralph got to share his expertise of what biz ops does , how they can be a more strategic function and what is nee...
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Season 2
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Episode 24
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31:32
How to 10X a bootstrap sustainable growth engine with Diana Goodwin, Founder & CEO of Marketbox
How you ever wondered what goes into bootstrapping a start-up and when it is time to start your next one while you run your first one? Well in today's episode we got to bring on Diana Goodwin Founder & CEO of Marketbox & Aquamobil...
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Season 1
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Episode 23
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28:06
The Keys for Building Culture that scale with Larry Zolob, Founder of Upmarkit
Scaling a business is hard but building a healthy high performing culture is even harder. People always talk how culture is so important no one knows what are the keys to building a culture that people can do the best work of their lives. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 22
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48:16
How to Lead a scale-up during Turbulent Times with Naveed Ahmad, CEO of Heart Health Institute
Building and leading a scale-up is hard but leading a company during turbulent times like COVID is even more challenging. In today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Naveed Ahmad, CEO of Heart Health Institute a...
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Season 1
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Episode 21
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35:16
The Keys for scaling a Sustainable Marketplace Business with Marketplace Leader, Blake Connoy
Marketplace are some of the toughest businesses to scale but what makes it so tough? Should you be supply or demand led when scaling? The jury is still out if marketplaces can ever be profitable and if you wonder wonder if these bu...
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Season 1
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Episode 20
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45:51
Leveraging Product-Led Growth to for building more sustainable growth with Wes Bush
Have you ever wondered how to create growth within your product? As channels become more and more expensive to acquire customers and people's willingness to pay go down, you need to think of new ways to drive growth of your company. <...
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Season 1
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Episode 19
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25:26
A founder's mindset into the key's to build a company that scales with Jesse Abrams
In Today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Jesse Abrams, the CEO and Founder of Homewise. Jesse brought in an amazing perspective of someone who is a serial entrepreneur and has started his second company, firs...
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Season 1
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Episode 18
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32:04
How to Build a Strategic Product Marketing Team with Anthony Milto
In today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Anthony Milto head of Product Marketing & Business Strategy at Intuit. With our conversation we got to cover what is product marketing and how you can create a str...
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Season 1
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Episode 17
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38:13
What does the tech world look like post COVID with Greg & Rahul
In today's episode of The Growth Equation Greg and Rahul had a discussion and shared their thoughts of what does this post COVID world look like for the tech industry. It was a honest and raw conversation about how the entire industry will chan...
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Season 1
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Episode 16
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42:17
How to rapidly test growth channels to scale with Dan Gray
In today's episode of The Growth Equation we are excited to bring on Dan Gray, Director of Growth at Kotn. Dan brings on a very unique perspective of working for early stage companies and helping to build growth engines. We go in depth of how y...
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Season 1
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Episode 15
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27:07
The Secret to building a profitability ecommerce business with Cristian Contreras
In today's episode of the Growth Equation we got to bring on Cristian Contreras, Product Operations at Shopify. Cristian brings an unique perspective of working for Shopify and providing his perspective on how to build proper ecommerce unit eco...
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Season 1
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Episode 14
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31:40
How to implement the right retention & churn model to scale with Andrew Michael
In Today's episode of the Growth Equation we got to bring on Andrew Michael who leads Business Intelligence for Hotjar and runs a successful podcast on churn called Churn.fm. Andrew gets to talk about the challenges businesses struggle with chu...
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Season 1
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Episode 13
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32:36
The Keys to Building a Sustainable High Growth Business with Sylvia Ng
In today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure to bring on Sylvia Ng, General Manager, Start Product Line at Shopify. Sylvia had one of the most interesting perspectives of having a very experienced tech career doing a ton of dif...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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31:24
The Keys to Building a Successful Demand Gen Engine with Roger Figueiredo
In Today's Episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Roger Figueiredo VP of marketing at #Paid. Roger had some amazing insights to share when it comes to demand generation and how to take a much more strategic approach w...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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25:49
How to build a sustainable growth marketing engine with Lachlan Kirkwood
On Today's episode of the growth equation we got to bring on Lachlan Kirkwood, Growth advisor for fast growing start-up companies. An interesting fact about Lachlan is that he is based in Australia (our first guest from there). Lac...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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37:04
How to Build & Lead a Growth Team with Connor Bradley
In today's episode of the growth equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Connor Bradley from Jobber who leads up the growth team. We really went deep to understand how you build a growth team and how the team adds value at Jobber. H...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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37:04
How to build the fundamentals to become a growth leader with Greg Leach
In today's episode of the growth equation we got to switch things up an interview our co-host Greg Leach, experienced tech growth leader. Greg explains his career and how he ended up becoming a growth leader and talks a lot about ...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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37:15
Inside the mind of a bootstrapped start-up founder with Rahul Goel, Founder of PheedLoop
In today's episode of the growth equation we got to switch things up an interview our co-host Rahul Goel, founder of Pheedloop. Rahul takes us inside the mind of a founder building a fast growing bootstrapped company. He has...
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Season 1
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Episode 7
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35:12
How MLSE is Driving Customer & Digital Transformation with Pansy Lee, MLSE Digital Labs
Have you ever wondered how organizations disrupt themselves and create digital transformation? Well In Today's episode of the Growth Equation we had the pleasure of bringing on Pansy Lee, Director of Product & Design at Maple Leaf S...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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25:48
Implementing Frameworks For Driving Sustainable Growth with SAAS Expert, Ramli John
Growth is fundamental to a company's survival. To compete in today's crowded business environment, it is vital for companies to implement powerful strategies that drive healthy and sustainable growth. Successful growth strategies start with a f...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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36:54
How to Increase Your Traffic by 500% with CMO of Autoklose, Vedran Rasic
Building a successfully marketing engine is key to scaling any company. People tend to only think paid marketing is the key to generating traffic to your product. Products are built for channels and if you don't do this in the right way then yo...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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41:17
How to Scale from Zero to being Acquired with Co-Founder of Hatchways, Shums Kassam
Many people wonder what is the process like for founders to lead a company from inception to becoming acquired as part of a bigger company and really what it takes to get to the next step..... In today's episode of the growth equa...
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Season 1
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Episode 3
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33:16
Leveraging Brand Partnerships to 10X your Growth with Sebastian Hayto
Leveraging partnerships tends to be the last channel as part of your marketing mix but why is that? In some cases it can unlock massive growth opportunity not just to immediately drive customer growth but to also build a brand. In...
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Season 1
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Episode 2
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40:46
Experimentation Framework for Driving Sustainable Growth with Sammy Halabi
Growth is fundamental to a company's survival. To complete in today's business environment, it is vital for companies to implement powerful strategies that drive healthy sustainable growth. Successful growth strategies start with a method...
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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33:43