20Growth: Top Five Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook and Data Science at Sequoia Capital, The Two Skills Required to do Analytics Well, The Three Types of Execs within Companies and When and How to Hire for Growth with Chandra Narayanan

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🗓️ 13 March 2024

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

Chandra Narayanan is one of the growth and analytics OGs having spent 7 years at Facebook leading analytics for the Facebook App and for Instagram. After Facebook, Chandra became Chief Data Scientist @ Sequoia Capital, helping Sequoia, find, select and help the best entrepreneurs in the world. Today, Chandra is the Founder & CEO @ Sundial, building products to help builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill *their* mission.

In Today's Episode with Chandra Narayanan

1. From Working on the Weather to Leading Analytics at Facebook:

How did Chandra make his way from analyzing weather patterns to leading analytics for Facebook?
What does Chandra know now that he wishes he had known when he started his career in growth?
How did one piece of advice from his manager at Paypal change Chandra's mind forever on "quitting" and when to "quit"?

2. Growth and Analytics 101:

What does growth mean to Chandra? What is it? What is it not?
When is the right time to hire a growth team/person?
What is the right profile for the first growth hires?

3. How to Hire the Best Growth Teams in the World:

What are the must-ask questions when hiring for growth?
How does Chandra use case studies to determine the quality of a candidate?
What does Chandra believe are the four main reasons people go to work?
What are the three different types of execs in tech? How do you know when you need each one?

4. Lessons from Leading Analytics at Facebook and Sequoia:

What are 1-2 of Chandra's biggest takeaways from leading analytics at Facebook?
What does Chandra believe are the two core skills needed to do analytics well?
How can you easily test if someone is good at analytics?
How did being Chief Data Scientist @ Sequoia change Chandra's perspective on growth?

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0:00.0	You never want to be a quitter. Set things right, fix things, and then when you're in a better
0:06.0	state of mind, come back to me and I'll see what you can do. If you think about why anyone comes
0:10.6	to work, it's for four different reasons. One is they love what they do. Number two, they love
0:16.0	the people they work with. Number three, they feel like they can learn from the people that they work
0:22.5	with. And four, the company is going up and to the right. If one of these four does not work,
0:27.1	they will leave. This is 20 Growth with me, Harry Stebbings. Now, 20 Growth is a show that sits down
0:31.8	with the best growth leaders in the world to reveal their tips, tactics and strategies. When it
0:37.0	comes to scaling the best growth themes.
0:39.3	Today, I'm joined by one of the true OGs of the world of growth, Chandra Narayanan.
0:44.3	Chandra spent seven years at Facebook leading analytics for the Facebook app and for Instagram.
0:49.3	After Facebook, Chandra became chief data scientist at Sequoia, helping Sequoia find, select and help the best
0:55.7	entrepreneurs in the world. Today, Chandra is the founder and CEO at Sundial, building products
1:00.5	to help builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. But before we dive into
1:05.6	the show's day, short form video has never been more important for your business. Social
1:10.1	media managers, growth marketers, this is the single biggest opportunity you have today.
1:14.6	Did you know, Ollipop took their sales from 3 million to 200 million by doubling down on video?
1:20.6	But wow, it is expensive to do well, and it takes a shitload of time.
1:24.6	That was until captions came into the world. Honestly,
1:28.0	captions is one of my favorite tools. I use it here at 20VC all the time because it makes
1:32.4	creating videos so easy and simple. They have the most incredible array of tools from advanced
1:37.5	captioning, which I use for all the videos we do, to revolutionary dubbing tools, allowing teams
1:42.5	to take one ad and repurpose it, even into multiple languages.
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