Sean Ellis

Interim VP of Growth

I specialize in taking exciting new startups to market and helping them realize the full potential of their product-market fit. I work hands-on with founding teams to design go-to-market strategies and growth systems that turn early traction into scalable, durable growth.

Earlier in my career, I led go-to-market execution for companies like Dropbox, Eventbrite, Lookout, and LogMeIn. Dropbox reached $1B in ARR faster than any prior SaaS company, powered by a product-led growth engine I helped shape. More recently, I’ve led growth efforts at high-velocity startups such as Bounce.

I’m the coauthor of Hacking Growth, read by 800,000+ founders, operators, and investors worldwide, and translated into 16 languages. The book introduced a practical, systems-driven approach to scaling that many modern startups still use as a foundation.

Today, I work with founders and leadership teams through keynotes, workshops, and hands-on engagements focused on go-to-market execution, experimentation, and growth leadership. I also teach through GoPractice.io and cohost the Breakout Growth podcast.

I’ve taught growth and entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School, UC Berkeley Haas, INSEAD, Oxford, CKGSB, and other leading universities.

Author

Best-selling manifesto, "Hacking Growth," is a global phenomenon translated into 16 languages and embraced by over 750,000 readers worldwide. In this comprehensive guide, Sean and and his coauthor Morgan Brown unveil the process behind scaling startups to unimaginable heights, offering a blueprint for success that resonates across continents. Sean and Morgan have unique insights into growth success because of their combined experiences growing products such as Dropbox, Facebook, Shopify, LogMeIn, Instagram, Eventbrite and studying the growth engines and processes behind other breakout success companies. 

Get your copy here: https://www.amazon.com/Hacking-Growth-Fastest-Growing-Companies-Breakout/dp/045149721X

For a long time, intent meant one thing: search.

That’s no longer true.

Intent now shows up through behavior, product usage, and increasingly inside AI systems — often before anyone ever searches.

I put together a short deck on how intent has expanded, where it lives now, and what this changes for modern growth teams.

Curious how others are thinking about this:

Is intent becoming more powerful as it moves beyond search, or harder to leverage?

Blog at SeanEllis.Substack.com. Book me at SeanEllis.me. Author Hacking Growth - 750K+ books sold.

Intent has outgrown search

Funny that I have to keep reminding ChatGPT to speak in hypotheses.
 
Opinions ≠ facts. Even when they come from AI 🙂

Founder/CEO @ Humanic PLG OS

At Humanic, we are building the lovable for Email Marketing 

Before this, I focused on tackling growth challenges at Adobe Creative Cloud and Evernote. Earlier in my career, I was among the first team members at two successful startups: FastForward Networks, acquired by Inktomi for $1.3 billion, and Streamlogics, which was later acquired by Thomson Reuters.

Arjun Saksena

Now that everyone is back to work. Lets begin turning AI into revenue in 2026

Learn to Prompt is a hackathon built around a practical question: 

How do you use modern AI tools to improve how products are launched, positioned, and distributed?

Hosted at the frontiertower in San Francisco, this event brings together founders, marketers, operators, and builders who want to work hands-on with AI rather than talk about it.

The hackathon centers on prompt design as a core skill for go-to-market work. Participants will explore how prompts shape research, messaging, outbound, content, and feedback loops. The emphasis is on writing prompts that are clear, reusable, and grounded in real problems teams face every day.

After a short introduction, teams will form and move directly into building. You will experiment with prompts, test workflows, and refine outputs in real time. The goal is to leave with prompt structures and systems you can reuse in your own work, not one-off experiments.

This event is a strong fit for: 

-- E-commerce store owners
-- Early-Stage Startup Founders
-- Growth and Marketing Leaders
-- Content Creators who want to engage with their followers
-- Community Builders
-- Local businesses - Yoga Studios, Churches, Flower Shops
-- Educators and many more. 

If you are curious about how prompting translates into practical results, this will be a hands-on way to learn.

Learn to Prompt is hosted with Humanic AI, Lovable, and the <ai/> x Marketing Community. 

Click here to register: 
https://lnkd.in/g9tmEkBt

Thank you Nir Naamani Devinder Sodhi frontiertower Matheus Darós Pagani for helping put this together.

#AIMarketing #LearntoPrompt #Prompting #Growth #AIEmail #Lovable

Founder/CEO @ Humanic - Building Agentic Email Marketing

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