Martin Gontovnikas (@mgonto) is Co-Founder and GP @ HyperGrowth Partners & Ex SVP, Marketing & Growth at Auth0.

Autho0 was acquired by Okta for $6.5B in March 2021.

We talk about the differences between a growth team vs. marketing team (he managed both at Auth0), when to bring on growth, why buyer personas matter for your marketing strategy, how to market to developers, why he hired engineers to write for the Auth0 blog, product-led growth, why demand gen. is just about tapping into habits, where brand and PR fit in the puzzle, why his first two hires where a data person and a content person, growing to $25M ARR through inbound, multi-touch vs. first-touch and more.

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