The Breakout Growth Podcast

Sean Ellis and Ethan Garr interview CEOs and product, growth and marketing leaders from the world's fastest-growing companies so that you can learn from them how to take your growth to the next level. Sean and Ethan draw on decades of experience growing breakout success companies and products including Dropbox, Robokiller, LogMeIn, Eventbrite, Lookout and Uproar to ask the right questions. seanellis.substack.com

The Breakout Growth Podcast is a business podcast hosted by Sean Ellis, with 101 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Sean Ellis hosts The Breakout Growth Podcast, a business show with 101 episodes published.

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  Cracking the Viral Loop: Calendly’s Playbook for Freemium Growth

  Apr 8, 202552 minS0

  <p>Listen now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube</p><p>Episode Overview:</p><p>In this episode of The Breakout Growth Podcast, Sean Ellis and Ethan Garr sit down with Darren Chait, VP of Marketing at Calendly to explore the strategies that have propelled the company’s success. Calendly’s viral growth model and product-led growth (PLG) strategy have made it a must-have tool for millions of professionals, and Darren shares the lessons, challenges, and wins that have defined the company’s journey.</p><p>From leveraging a natural viral loop to prioritizing retention and optimizing cross-functional collaboration, this conversation is pac...

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  Beyond the Buzzword: How AI is Reshaping Product & Growth Strategies

  Mar 25, 202557 minS0

  <p>Listen now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube</p><p>Episode Overview:</p><p>In this episode of The Breakout Growth Podcast, Sean Ellis and Ethan Garr sit down with Marily Nika, Gen AI Product Lead at Google, to explore how AI is transforming product growth, product management, and user experiences.</p><p>Marily has been working in AI for over a decade, long before it became today’s hottest buzzword. Her unique perspective? AI is not the product—the experience is the product. In this conversation, she breaks down why that distinction matters, how startups can move faster with AI...

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  AI as Your Growth Partner: Practical Strategies From Expert Justin Kistner

  Jan 9, 20251h 1mS0

  <p></p><p>Listen now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube</p><p>Episode Overview:</p><p>In this episode of The Breakout Growth Podcast, Sean Ellis and Ethan Garr explore how growth professionals should be thinking about and using AI to win. Our guest is Justin Kistner, founder of CopyClub.ai and CopySub. Justin is on a mission to help individuals and teams unlock the potential of AI, and his approach will likely change how you think about and use AI to advance your growth playbook every day.</p><p>From building a "context library" to rethinking how we prompt...

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  The Duolingo Playbook: What Startups Can Learn From Gina Gotthilf's Growth Strategies

  Dec 3, 202454 minS0

  <p>Listen now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube</p><p>Episode Overview:</p><p>In this episode of the Breakout Growth Podcast, Sean Ellis and co-host Ethan Garr are joined by Gina Gotthilf, co-founder of a stealth-mode education startup backed by a $13M seed round led by Khosla Ventures. Gina shares her journey from launching Tumblr in Brazil to leading growth at Duolingo, and now to building the future of college. This conversation dives deep into the lessons Gina learned from scaling some of the most iconic tech brands and how she’s applying them to her current venture.</p><p>...

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  How Continuous Discovery Fuels Growth: Insights from Teresa Torres

  Oct 24, 20241h 6mS0

  <p>Listen now on Apple, Spotify and YouTube</p><p>Episode Overview:</p><p>In this episode of The Breakout Growth Podcast, hosts Sean Ellis and Ethan Garr sit down with Teresa Torres, Product Discovery Coach at Product Talk and author of Continuous Discovery Habits. Teresa is a recognized leader in the product discovery space, helping product teams integrate continuous learning into their workflows to drive growth and innovation.</p><p>Teresa shares her thoughts on how teams can shift from being feature-focused to outcome-focused and why that matters. And she also explains how companies can build products that improve...

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