The Growth Show

Bill Macaitis knows a little bit about growth. In his time as Zendesk CMO, he helped take the company from venture-funded startup through an IPO resulting in a $1.7 billion market cap. When he led online marketing and operations at Salesforce, he helped grow revenues from $900M to $3 billion. Today he serves as CMO at Slack, the hyper-growth messaging startup that is less than two years old and already worth north of $2B with over 500,000 users.

Christine Tsai is one of the founding partners of 500 Startups. Prior to 500, Christine spent eight years at Google working on AdSense, Google Analytics and YouTube. She joins HubSpot’s Katie Burke on this episode of the Growth Show to talk about what she learned during Google’s crazy growth - there were 1,000 employees when she started there and over 50,000 today.

Most people would be thrilled to build one $100 Million business. Cameron Herold has built three, including 1-800-GOT-JUNK, the worlds-largest residential junk removal company, where he grew revenues from $2 Million to $106 Million in just six years. Today, Cameron is a business coach, mentor to several companies, and CEO coach to large corporations globally.

John Wall, host of Marketing Over Coffee - one of the most popular and longest running marketing podcasts - joins HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe to talk about the resurgence of podcasts and if you should think about starting one for your business.

After years running a company in the fashion industry and witnessing environmental pollution and human rights violations, Beth Doane had finally seen enough. But instead of leaving the industry behind, she wanted to try and change it -- and that’s exactly what she did with Raintees. Built on her vision that fashion could be made ethically while making a difference, every Raintee sold plants a tree in an endangered forest and helps to donate school supplies to children in need.

17 years ago, Dan Koh kicked off his career in public service by working in sting operations designed to crack down on cigarette sales to minors. He was 12 years old. Today - at just 29 - Dan is Chief of Staff to the City of Boston where he advises the Mayor and helps him execute on his vision for the city.

Tomasz Tunguz is a partner at Redpoint Ventures and former Product Manager at Google. Tomasz is best known for his data-driven blog posts about the key questions facing startups including how to fundraise, startup benchmarks, management best practices and team building. Almost all of his writing and thought leadership is centered around one main theme: “What can you do to grow faster?”

Will Dean is the founder and CEO of Tough Mudder. Dean came up with the idea for Tough Mudder while at Harvard Business School and at the time, everyone thought he was crazy. With only $8,000 to spend on marketing, Dean hoped to get 500 people at their first event. Instead, 5,000 people showed up and there was no looking back from there.

Guy Kawasaki, former Chief Evangelist at Apple and now Chief Evangelist at Canva joins us to talk about his latest book, The Art of Social Media: Power Tips for Power Users, and a few of his unconventional social media strategies that have helped him drive traffic and build an audience of millions of followers.

On this episode of The Growth Show, HubSpot’s Mike Volpe and Meghan Keaney-Anderson sit down with Craig Miller, Chief Marketing Officer at Shopify, to talk about the techniques that his team has used to help fuel Shopify's 10x growth since joining the company just three years ago. Miller also talks about why he thinks engineers make great marketers, his decision to re-brand the marketing team to the growth team, and why there are huge opportunities in things that are often boring like your Terms of Servic

Part 2 of Mike Volpe's interview with David Skok, General Partner, Matrix Partners and four-time entrepreneur.

On this episode of The Growth Show, HubSpot CMO Mike Volpe sits down with David Skok from Matrix Partners. Skok started his first company in 1977 at age 22, and since then has started four separate companies, three of which went public. Through his experience as a founder and now an investor, Skok has become one of the leading thinkers on growth and building a business -- and specifically in the areas of sales and marketing.

On this episode of The Growth Show, HubSpot CEO Brian Halligan & VP of Marketing Cindy Goodrich chat with Jeff Rosenblum, the writer, director, and executive producer of The Naked Brand, a documentary that looks at how companies can change the world by doing something revolutionary -- telling the truth in their marketing and advertising.