Getting Real GROWTH In Your Business (w/ Brian Balfour of Reforge)

Noah Kagan Presents

Noah Kagan

Entrepreneurship, Business

4.7 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

Brian Balfour was the Head of Growth at HubSpot, started multiple VC-backed companies, and has grown brands to MILLIONS of daily active users. Today, he’s the founder of Reforge — a REALLY cool tool that gives you access to things like onboarding docs, presentation decks, brand positioning, org charts, roadmaps, etc. from top-performing business leaders like:

- Andrew Chen of Andreessen Horowitz

- Lauryn Isford the Head of Growth @ Notion

- And Helen Kupp the Sr. Director of Product Strategy @ Slack

It’s like Github for tech startup businesses.

Check out Reforge at www.reforge.com.

If you’ve ever wanted to learn about how to SUPERCHARGE your business’s growth, you’ll love this episode.

In this conversation, you’ll enjoy 3 BIG things:

- Why being a CEO isn’t actually as awesome as people make it seem

- What Brian does to make every new business launch EPIC

- The EXACT strategies Brian uses to scale companies in a big way

Enjoy those 3 things… plus a bunch more ear nuggets along the way.

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0:00.0	one of the hardest thing for a founder to edit and kill over time,
0:03.7	which is this person's presenting me a bunch of nice to have feedback,
0:06.8	all that kind of stuff.
0:07.4	But you have this intuitive sense that it hasn't really crossed the line
0:11.0	until need to have and really want to have. And you just like no like this isn't good enough and explaining why is really hard. What is up you sexy bastards? It's your boy weatherman aka Rabbi Can't
0:24.2	lose aka noo Kagan. In today's episode I talked to a very good long time
0:28.8	internet buddy Brian Balfour who is now the CEO and founder of Reforge.com.
0:34.0	I met Brian when I was working at Facebook and he has gone on to do some
0:38.0	super impressive and really interesting things in his career and he's just been a really great friend.
0:41.0	He was the head of growth at HubSpot,
0:42.9	as HubSpot, I think they're worth like $30 billion.
0:44.9	He started multiple VC-backed companies.
0:47.0	He is very well known for internet marketing.
0:49.6	I don't know about growth hacking,
0:50.7	but you know, stuff like that.
0:51.8	And has grown brands to millions of
0:53.6	daily active users today he's a founder of reforge.com from nothing they have a
0:58.7	30 million dollar a year a r business and they raised I don't know if it's public but a lot of money
1:04.8	from Andresen Horwitz one of the best VC firms on earth they've also
1:08.8	launched a brand new tool over at re-Forge.com called Artifacts.
1:13.1	And I've been using this personally.
1:14.4	This is not sponsored or anything.
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