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Growth with a Capital “G”: What It Is and How to Get Started

OpenView Labs

More often than people would like to admit, organizations treat growth like some kind of black box. At its core, growth is really an experimentation framework. It’s a structured way to develop a set of hypotheses across marketing & product experiences that are informed by what you know about your customer and your business.

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A Look Back: Slack at $30,000,000 in ARR

SaaStr

And we ended the day with an incredible combo of the hottest app at that time (and one of the hottest ever), Slack, who likely was around $30m ARR or so … and hadn’t yet added a sales team! We started development in early 2004. Can you get to $100 million without a sales team, do you think?

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