20Growth: Top Growth Lessons from the Early Facebook, Twitter and Quora Days, The Most Important Question to Ask When Building Your Growth Team, How To Test For True Candidate Depth and Quality When Hiring for Growth with Andy Johns, Venture Partner @ Unu

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🗓️ 17 November 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Andy Johns is one of the pre-eminent growth leaders of the last decade. Andy's career started in growth at Facebook when the company scaled from 100M-500M active users. Since he has worked in some of the leading growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Quora and more recently at Wealthfront as Head of Growth and President. Andy is also an active angel investor and advisor with companies such as Poshmark, Robinhood, Webflow, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Opendoor. If that was not enough, Andy is currently a Venture Partner @ Unusual Ventures where he focuses on consumer social and network-driven startups.

In Today’s Episode with Andy Johns You Will Learn:

1.) How Andy made his way into the world of startups and growth with his joining the Facebook growth team? What were the biggest takeaways from his time with Facebook, Twitter and Quora? How did that impact his mindset today?

2.) How does Andy define "VP and Head of Growth"? When is the right time to start hiring for your growth team? How should founders determine whether they need a growth leader or growth engineers in the early days? What is the core question founders need to ask on network effects to answer this question? Should the growth team be incorporated into the product team?

3.) How does Andy structure the hiring process for growth hires? What does the structure of the interviews look like? How does Andy test for real depth with candidates? What case studies does he do to really understand their quality? Where do many go wrong with the interview process? What are Andy's biggest suggestions for how to optimise the process?

4.) What does the optimal onboarding process for new hires look like? What takes and processes should they complete in their first month? What are early signs of a poor candidate? How long should one give them if they are not performing? How does Andy approach structure post-mortems within the team? What is the ideal relationship between CEO and Head of Growth?

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0:00.0	Welcome to 20 Growth. This is a show that takes you inside the minds of some of the world's best growth leaders, providing you with a benchmark for how the best operate, execute, and most importantly, hire. In this series, they are your personal advisor to scaling growth teams. And today, I'm so thrilled to be joined by Andy Johns. Andy is one of the preeminent growth leaders of the last decade. His career in growth started at Facebook
0:20.8	when the company scaled from 100 million to 500 million active users. Since he has worked in some of the
0:26.4	leading growth orgs at companies like Twitter, Cora, and more recently at Wealthfront, as head of
0:30.9	growth and president. And he's also an active angel investor and advisor with companies such as
0:35.4	Poshmark, Robin Hood, Webflow, Blue Bottle Coffee and Open Door.
0:39.4	And if that wasn't enough, and he's also currently a venture partner at unusual ventures,
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