How to Set Up, Hire and Scale a Growth Strategy and Team: Growth, Hiring, KPI | Y Combinator

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What does a growth team do and why should we set up a growth team? Growth experts on when to invest in growth, what the right growth KPIs are, how to manage growth, building a growth team how to get everyone in the company to care about growth.

So, we spent time with 25 growth experts, who have worked at companies (including Facebook, Airbnb, Uber, Stitch Fix, Square, Slack and Instagram -- full list below), to identify best practices for establishing a growth program. Here are the topics covered in this guide: When to invest in growth Check your retention (+ examples) Good retention / bad retention Building your growth team The most common makeup The ideal PM candidate The ideal engineer candidate The ideal data scientist candidate When to hire your initial growth team To Do: Your growth team's first year Set an…

How to Set Up, Hire and Scale a Growth Strategy and Team: Growth, Hiring, KPI | Y Combinator

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