Before 2012, the term “growth hacking” wasn’t a thing.

According to the mythology surrounding Facebook,[note]https://www.recode.net/2016/3/21/11587128/silicon-valleys-homogeneous-rich-douchebags-wont-win-forever-says[/note] Chamath Palihapitiya coined the idea of the first growth team during a meeting with Sheryl Sandberg.

I used to work at a horror production company called After Dark Films. We churned out memorable films like Asylum (“A mess, from the…

A friend of mine is a personal trainer and former bodybuilding competitor. We used to work together. We were working on a fitness product,…