Airbnb runs about 700 experiments in a given week. Here, I chat with data scientist Linsday Pettingill on the culture and principles that allow their team to move so quickly and efficiently, and how others people can transpose these ideas to their own work.

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Lindsay Pettingill: Airbnb's 4 Principles For Marketing Experimentation

What do companies like Facebook, Dropbox, Airbnb, Pinterest (and others!) all have in common? Not just a great product, but a methodical, measured approach to driving extraordinary growth. In this episode, Sean Ellis and Morgan Brown (founders of GrowthHackers.com) unpack the principles behind these methods.

Sean Ellis & Morgan Brown: How Successful Companies Drive Extraordinary Growth

Scott Monty, former head of social media at Ford Motor Company, talks about his decision to join Ford in 2008 and the specifics of what went into the social and branding strategies that helped turn the company’s image around.

Scott Monty: The Moves That Helped Change Ford Motor Company's Image

Jason Fried, Founder and CEO of Basecamp, talks about the (rare) art of making more money than you spend instead of aiming for growth at all costs.

Jason Fried: The Basecamp Founder on Bypassing Perverted Growth for Profitability

Christian Rudder, cofounder of OkCupid and bestselling author of “Dataclysm: Who We Are When We Think No One is Looking”, talks about OkCupid’s algorithmic approach to growing past its competition.

Christian Rudder: Growing OkCupid from Underdog to Generating 30,000 First Dates Every Single Day

Tucker Max, bestselling author of "I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell", talks about the inspiration behind founding his new company, Book in a Box, and how they’re helping people turn ideas into books.

Tucker Max: How to Turn Your Ideas Into Books Without Actually Writing Them

Jay Acunzo, former marketer at Google and HubSpot, talks about the inspiration behind his current passion project Unthinkable.fm, and how he’s helping connect marketers everywhere that are bothered by “suck.”

Jay Acunzo: Connecting People That Are Bothered By "Suck"

Meghan Keaney Anderson, HubSpot's VP of Marketing, has been with the company for five years. Here she talks about the levers that have inspired growth and why content and SEO will be radically different over the next five years.

Meghan Keaney Anderson: HubSpot's VP of Marketing On Why Content is Moving Away from the Website

Jess Iandiorio, VP of Marketing at Drift, details prescriptive tips on how brands can start building a more effective customer growth strategy and retain more customers.

Jess Iandiorio: Drift's VP of Marketing on Building A Customer Growth Strategy

Keith Frankel talks in detail about the career that has taken him from the competitive board rooms at MTV to the rose-tinted offices of the tech world and the experiences therein that led to his mission to never lie again.

Keith Frankel: "You can be honest without being an asshole"

Neil Pasricha, best known for his blog–1000 Awesome Things–and subsequent "Book of Awesome" series talks about his new book, "The Happiness Equation", and how he discovered the simplest formula to a happy life.

Neil Pasricha: The Bestselling Author On Discovering the Simplest Formula to A Happy Life

Jason Zook, best known for making over $1,000,000 wearing t-shirts and selling his last name (twice), talks about creativity, hustle porn, and preparing for success.

Jason Zook: The Guy Who Made $1 Million Wearing T-Shirts

David Heinemeier Hansson on why Silicon Valley culture gets it all wrong.

David Heinemeier Hansson: The Cofounder of Basecamp on Rejecting Money & Living Happily Ever After

Nataly Kogan, founder of Happier, talks about escaping communist Russia at 13 and her life’s work of helping others find happiness in small, bite-sized, everyday moments.

Nataly Kogan: The Road to “Happier" from Communist Russia

Jeff Sheldon, the designer and founder of Ugmonk, talks about growing his side passion project into the well-known lifestyle brand it's become today.

Jeff Sheldon: The Founder of Ugmonk on Fighting Obscurity & Selling Your First 200 Shirts

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