Sean Ellis

Interim VP of Growth

I specialize in taking exciting new startups to market and helping them realize the full potential of their product-market fit. I work hands-on with founding teams to design go-to-market strategies and growth systems that turn early traction into scalable, durable growth.

Earlier in my career, I led go-to-market execution for companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, Lookout, and LogMeIn. Dropbox reached $1B in ARR faster than any prior SaaS company, powered by a product-led growth engine I helped shape. More recently, I’ve led growth efforts at high-velocity startups such as Bounce.

I’m the coauthor of Hacking Growth, read by 800,000+ founders, operators, and investors worldwide, and translated into 16 languages. The book introduced a practical, systems-driven approach to scaling that many modern startups still use as a foundation.

Today, I work with founders and leadership teams through keynotes, workshops, and hands-on engagements focused on go-to-market execution, experimentation, and growth leadership. I also teach through GoPractice.io and cohost the Breakout Growth podcast.

I’ve taught growth and entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, UC Berkeley Haas, INSEAD, Oxford, CKGSB, and other leading universities.

Author

Best-selling manifesto, "Hacking Growth," is a global phenomenon translated into 16 languages and embraced by over 750,000 readers worldwide. In this comprehensive guide, Sean and and his coauthor Morgan Brown unveil the process behind scaling startups to unimaginable heights, offering a blueprint for success that resonates across continents. Sean and Morgan have unique insights into growth success because of their combined experiences growing products such as Dropbox, Facebook, Shopify, LogMeIn, Instagram, Eventbrite and studying the growth engines and processes behind other breakout success companies. 

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Growth-Fastest-Growing-Companies-Breakout/dp/045149721X

For a long time, intent meant one thing: search.

That’s no longer true.

Intent now shows up through behavior, product usage, and increasingly inside AI systems — often before anyone ever searches.

I put together a short deck on how intent has expanded, where it lives now, and what this changes for modern growth teams.

Curious how others are thinking about this:

Is intent becoming more powerful as it moves beyond search, or harder to leverage?

Blog at SeanEllis.Substack.com. Book me at SeanEllis.me. Author Hacking Growth - 750K+ books sold.

Intent has outgrown search

Funny that I have to keep reminding ChatGPT to speak in hypotheses.
 
Opinions ≠ facts. Even when they come from AI 🙂

I have 3 loves... My family, living in flipflops, and helping businesses grow.

As founder of Orange Pegs and co-founder of Catalyst, I have spent the last 13 years helping entrepreneurs and business leaders articulate their mission and vision through sales and marketing campaigns with a single outcome in mind: Growth.

We've helped launch tech, professional service, and software companies... we've tested new markets, helped established businesses pivot their ENTIRE business model mid-pandemic, and others THRIVE during the most challenging economic conditions. 

We've created opportunity engines for pre-revenue, middle-age, and mature staffing agencies, introduced commodified products into new markets, and brought transparency, and extreme control in opportunity generation in companies you'd never believe were capable of TRUE growth culture.

This is my joy.

I help businesses investing in growth make bets that are calculated, transparent, and formulaic--I create sandboxes that make growth investments a "fun exploration," and implement programs that help you test and expand all of your best ideas.... while putting those 'other' ones to rest once and for all.

Got a wild idea you're dying to test? Launching a new product, or venturing into a new market? Trying to bring predictability to your sales pipeline, scale your business, or prepare for an exit?

... we should talk. I don't care how big (or small) your budget is. I know I can help :)

Lucas Hamon

Not every tool is meant for everyone.

Catalyst works best for people who are ready to show up, use it, and apply what they’re building into their business.

To reflect that, pricing will be increasing soon. If you’re curious and want to check it out at the current $27/month, it’s available for a limited time here:
👉 https://bit.ly/3Yhy4v5

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