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HubSpot’s Michael Redbord on staying in touch with your customers as you scale

Intercom, Inc.

Even as the company begins to expand, it’s important to prioritize these one-to-one conversations because understanding how your users interact with your product is actually the key to healthy growth. Michael: Most people listening probably think of HubSpot as this inbound marketing company.

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Andrew Chen on finding the “fresh powder” in growth

Intercom, Inc.

He’s written more than 650 of them over the past decade and has been featured and quoted in The New York Times, Fortune, Wired and Wall Street Journal. Growth teams commonly make the mistake of picking random, off-the-shelf KPIs without thinking about how they all fit together. Adam Risman: Andrew, welcome to Inside Intercom.

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Podcast Q&A: Dropbox’s viral growth, Uber’s tricky funnels, and future growth channels

Andrew Chen

Collaborative tools like Dropbox and Slack benefit from built-in virality , where teams adopt them together – and they represent a tidal wave of software products that truly understand the relationships between people. First zero in on a strategy for achieving your desired outcome , and then pick high quality metrics to validate your tests.