20Growth: Inside Kraken's $1.5BN Growth Playbook: What Works, What Doesn't and What No Founders Understand About Growth That Will Change Their Company with Mayur Gupta
Mayur Gupta is currently the CMO at Kraken, one of the largest crypto platforms in the world. Prior to that, he lead Marketing, Business Transformation and Growth at Gannett - USA Today Network, led Growth at Spotify and was the CMO at Freshly which eventually got acquired by Nestle. He was the first ever Chief Marketing Technologist at Kimberly Clark. In Today's Episode We Discuss: 03:25 Biggest Growth Lessons from Spotify 08:21 Role of Marketing in Product-Led Companies 13:35 How to Build a Growth Engine 20:40 Organic vs. Paid Growth Strategies 27:36 The Branding Dilemma: Performance vs. Brand Marketing 28:37 Creating Demand: The Role of Upper Funnel Marketing 29:35 Balancing Investment: Immediate vs Long Term Bets 30:03 Channel Saturation and Experimentation 31:42 Growth Strategies and Performance Metrics 34:54 Growth: Big Swings or Moving % Points 40:04 Successful Growth Experiments and Tactics 44:56 Quick Fire Questions and Final Thoughts