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Sean Ellis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
274 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I just had my 20th anniversary.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Two girls, 17 and 15.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Oh, wow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And how old are you, Sean?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I'm 46.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

No, I think it's good to understand.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

You know, I used to read a bunch of biographies on really successful people and I found them really inspiring.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

But then you read like Ted Turner, multiple suicide attempts.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I mean, I might be wrong there, so I'm not necessarily wrong.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

Fake news.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

But I think I read that he โ€“ what you find is that a lot of these guys are kind of miserable once they get to that level of success.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And so I definitely feel like I could be more successful in life if that was the only thing that happened, more successful financially.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

But yeah, I mean I like to get out surfing a couple days a week.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I just โ€“

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

So it's a marathon and quality of life is important.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And for me, I do this not for money.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

I do this for I'm just really passionate about it and trying to figure growth out and being able to work with companies to

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

figure it out and give them software and give them conferences and give them training and just, you know, kind of collaboratively we're, we're just so early in figuring out how companies grow.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And so it's, uh, I, it's just like a privilege for me to be able to do these things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
646: He Coined Term "Growth Hacking" After DropBox, EventBrite, LogMeIn Work, Now Launching Book "Hacking Growth" with Sean Ellis

And of course, when I took in venture capital, that means I have to try to build a big valuable business, but, um,