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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

It was cash flow positive the whole time we were scaling growth there.

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're pronouncing that correct, yes.

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 was, it was customer insights.

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 I'm such, I'm really passionate about figuring out what's going on with customers because they hold the keys to really figuring out your growth in the business.

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, um, we actually acquired that business, um,

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

uh, I think 2012.

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 we acquired it from kiss metrics.

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

It was called kiss insights at the time.

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

Really?

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

That was kind of this little side business.

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

Didn't have much revenue, but I liked the product.

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'd been an advisor there and actually encouraged them to build it.

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 when I saw that they weren't doing a whole lot with it, I asked if I could acquire it.

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, uh,

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

Took it over and built it up to millions of dollars in recurring revenue.

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 then we sold it, yeah, a year ago.

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 it was basically โ€“ it's on a website.

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 can target based on specific behavior of a user on a website and understand โ€“ like if they're abandoning a page, you can understand why did you decide?

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

Just like I was saying with LogMeIn, why did you decide to 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

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