What factors breed innovation? How do you take a product from zero to one, launching and iterating quickly? What does it mean to create sustainable growth? In this episode, Cambria Davies (Product Manager at Ro) tells us the story of launching one of HubSpot's flagship products from scratch, and all of the critical steps her team took along the way. We dive into jobs-to-be-done, activation metrics, and the significance of sustainable growth. Plus, Cambria gives us a peek into her new role at Ro, and some of their recent fast-paced COVID-19 launches.
"For those who might not be familiar with the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, the basic premise is that people hire products to fulfill jobs for them. So in the morning when I wake up, I have a job of waking up as efficiently as possible and I can either hire a cup of coffee to perform that job for me, or I could hire a green juice. So, you really shift the way that you think about competition and how people explore solutions to their problems, which is rooted in acute pain points or problems they have, as opposed to it being this generalizable demographic that will always drink coffee in the mornings." — Cambria at 12:29
Cambria's site: https://cambriadavies.com/
Cambria's blog: https://www.shipsh.it/blog
Cambria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cambria_davies
Ro: https://ro.co/ (P.S. They're hiring. Ping Cambria if you're interested.)
Book about JTBD: When Coffee and Kale Compete by Alan Klement
Book about error reduction: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ustinknight
More about the show and host: https://austinknight.com/
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What factors breed innovation? How do you take a product from zero to one, launching and iterating quickly? What does it mean to create sustainable growth? In this episode, Cambria Davies (Product Manager at Ro) tells us the story of launching one of HubSpot's flagship products from scratch, and all of the critical steps her team took along the way. We dive into jobs-to-be-done, activation metrics, and the significance of sustainable growth. Plus, Cambria gives us a peek into her new role at Ro, and some of their recent fast-paced COVID-19 launches.
"For those who might not be familiar with the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, the basic premise is that people hire products to fulfill jobs for them. So in the morning when I wake up, I have a job of waking up as efficiently as possible and I can either hire a cup of coffee to perform that job for me, or I could hire a green juice. So, you really shift the way that you think about competition and how people explore solutions to their problems, which is rooted in acute pain points or problems they have, as opposed to it being this generalizable demographic that will always drink coffee in the mornings." — Cambria at 12:29
Cambria's site: https://cambriadavies.com/
Cambria's blog: https://www.shipsh.it/blog
Cambria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cambria_davies
Ro: https://ro.co/ (P.S. They're hiring. Ping Cambria if you're interested.)
Book about JTBD: When Coffee and Kale Compete by Alan Klement
Book about error reduction: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ustinknight
More about the show and host: https://austinknight.com/
Freemium Growth with Dexter Zhuang (Growth Manager at Dropbox)
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8 years ago
Freemium Growth with Dexter Zhuang (Growth Manager at Dropbox)
How do companies like Dropbox, Spotify, Slack, and HubSpot leverage freemium strategies to grow? What are the different approaches to freemium, and when should (or shouldn't) they be used? In this episode, I sit down with Dexter Zhuang (Growth & Monetization Manager at Dropbox) to take a deep dive on freemium growth. From acquiring free users, to converting them to paid customers, to reinvesting that money into acquiring more free users, we cover it all and give you a glimpse at examples where it’s all gone right, and a few where it’s gone terribly wrong.
"Spotify has 40 million paid subscribers out of over 100 million monthly active users. The active user to paid subscriber conversion rate is somewhere between 25-40%, which is unheard of. This is an astronomical conversion rate. 80% of all users on Spotify use it multiple times per week. Multiple times per week." — Dexter at 19:30
Dexter on Twitter: Twitter.com/dexteryz
Check out Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/
Email us: Hello@UXandGrowth.com
Austin on Twitter: Twitter.com/ustinKnight
UX & Growth Podcast
What factors breed innovation? How do you take a product from zero to one, launching and iterating quickly? What does it mean to create sustainable growth? In this episode, Cambria Davies (Product Manager at Ro) tells us the story of launching one of HubSpot's flagship products from scratch, and all of the critical steps her team took along the way. We dive into jobs-to-be-done, activation metrics, and the significance of sustainable growth. Plus, Cambria gives us a peek into her new role at Ro, and some of their recent fast-paced COVID-19 launches.
"For those who might not be familiar with the Jobs-to-be-Done framework, the basic premise is that people hire products to fulfill jobs for them. So in the morning when I wake up, I have a job of waking up as efficiently as possible and I can either hire a cup of coffee to perform that job for me, or I could hire a green juice. So, you really shift the way that you think about competition and how people explore solutions to their problems, which is rooted in acute pain points or problems they have, as opposed to it being this generalizable demographic that will always drink coffee in the mornings." — Cambria at 12:29
Cambria's site: https://cambriadavies.com/
Cambria's blog: https://www.shipsh.it/blog
Cambria on Twitter: https://twitter.com/cambria_davies
Ro: https://ro.co/ (P.S. They're hiring. Ping Cambria if you're interested.)
Book about JTBD: When Coffee and Kale Compete by Alan Klement
Book about error reduction: The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Austin on Twitter: https://twitter.com/ustinknight
More about the show and host: https://austinknight.com/
