Merci Grace (ex-Head of Growth at Slack) on PLG, interviewing, storytelling, building a diverse team, hiring salespeople, building a growth team, and much more
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Lenny (00:00:03): Merci Grace has been a founder, an investor, head of growth at Slack, and now a founder again. She's also one of the co-founders of Women in Product, which, if you listen to this podcast, you know I'm a huge fan of....
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you listen to this podcast, you know I'm a huge fan of. In our conversation we cover what she's learned from her time helping Slack build a product team and figure out growth, how Slack innovated...
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Lenny (00:03:02): Merci, thank you so much for joining me. I've always been such a fan of yours from afar through your writing and your Twitter. We've...
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support team to help get people's machines working and things like that. So I don't know, because what you have is a little bit of a prosumer use case, right, where people have a personal but also very much...
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Lenny (00:58:40): Amazing. Merci, thank you so much for joining me. I had a ton of fun. I learned a ton, and thank you. Merci Grace (00:58:46): Likewise,...
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area that we're building in. And if you're someone who is curious about product-led growth, if you're head of growth at a company, if you're a CEO, or a founder, or an investor who's interested in finding out more, picking up maybe even a tool to help you be successful at it, go to panobi.com, and you can also just DM me on Twitter. Lenny (00:58:02): Speaking of that, where can folks find you online? How do they reach out? And then also just how can the audience be useful to you?...
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