Grow with Quora

This week we're rebroadcasting Jason Lemkin's earlier episode. He started the world’s largest community for SaaS/B2B founders, SaaStr.com, and the world’s largest gathering for them, SaaStr Annual. He's the former CEO/Co-founder of EchoSign (acq'd by Adobe).

Si Quan Ong works in marketing for Ahrefs, the SEO toolset that helps you grow your search traffic, research your competitors and dominate your niche. His hobby is breakdancing, and he has a dream to visit 100 countries.

This week's guest is Russ Heddleston the Co-founder and CEO of DocSend, a service for securely sending and tracking documents that has over 9,000 customers. He was previously a product manager at Facebook, where he arrived via the acquisition of his startup Pursuit.com, and has held roles at Dropbox, Microsoft, and Trulia.

This week's guest is Soso Sazesh, the CEO and Founder of Growth Pilots. Growth Pilots is a paid digital marketing agency focused on helping high-growth companies scale their paid search (SEM) and paid social marketing channels.

He started Growth Pilots to create a new digital marketing agency model that's built on deep partnership with a select group of leading high-growth companies.

Soso has helped scale customer acquisition for best-in-class companies such as Instacart, Gusto, Glassdoor, Betterment, Glowforge, Automattic, Kabam and dozens more. I have overseen more than $300 million in ad spend over my career.

Our guest this week is Michal Pecanek. He started in marketing as an SEO specialist but has grown into a generalist over time. He still loves SEO the most but you can also find him crafting killer email campaigns, blog posts or playing around with Google Tag Manager.

He currently works as Marketing Director for CDN77, one of the major global CDN providers with customers from more than 100 countries. Being on a global market provides endless marketing opportunities and Michal enjoys trying all the lesser-known tactics and tools.

Auren is CEO of SafeGraph. He's the former cofounder and CEO of LiveRamp -- the largest middleware company that connects marketing applications. LiveRamp was acquired by Acxiom in 2014 for $310 million. LiveRamp was formerly named Rapleaf. LiveRamp now is public company (NYSE:RAMP).

Auren was the first investor and served on the board of BrightRoll (acquired by Yahoo for $640 million).

He is the Chairman and co-founder (with Peter Thiel) of the Dialog Retreat.

Zenia Johnson is an Account Lead at 3Q Digital. She's a performance marketer with 6+ years of experience, and a demonstrated track record of helping B2C clients achieve scalable growth. Specialties include Social Media, Google and direct response marketing. Avid reader, with a passion for fostering inclusivity and diversity in the digital tech space.

Jordan has hosted a top 50 iTunes podcast for over 12 years and receives over five million downloads per month, making The Jordan Harbinger Show one of the most popular podcasts in the world. The show was awarded Apple’s “Best of 2018” and is one of the most downloaded shows of the year. On The Jordan Harbinger Show, Jordan deconstructs the playbooks of the most successful people on earth and shares their strategies, perspectives, and practical insights with the rest of us.

This week we're joined by Raad Ahmed, Founder and CEO of LawTrades. In this episode, he reveals his methodology for how he started and grew his business on Quora, while racking up over 10 million views on his answers.

A few insights from the episode:

- Learn how he piggybacks on Quora's audience and traffic to drive business results

- Get his systematic process for selecting questions and writing quality answers that reach his target audience

- How to use Quora as product-market fit tool to guide new products and features

This week we're joined by Brendan Weitz, Head of Product Partnerships at Quora. In this episode, he walks us through the first year of the Quora Ads API, our partnerships, and how to incorporate them into your marketing strategy.

A few insights from the episode:

- The reasons why advertisers should use the Quora Ads API

- Learn the types of tasks you can automate with the API

- A preview of API partnerships on the horizon