The Growth Show

By HubSpot

What's The Growth Show about?

Starting a business has never been easier. But finding success in one has never been harder. Each episode explores the inspiring stories behind how people grow a business, an idea, or a movement. Hosted by Matthew Brown.

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The Growth Show episodes:

02.20.2018
The Turnaround: Coming Soon
Our new season -- The Turnaround -- is right around the corner, but we wanted to give you a little preview of what’s to come. In this mini-episode, Dan Pink and Steve Blank both return to the show, and we...
10.31.2017
We’ll See You in 2018!
After nearly three years, The Growth Show is officially taking a break. But we’re not stopping, by any means. We’ve already begun production on our next season. We’ll be back in 2018 with all new episodes, telling all new stories of...
10.24.2017
From Marketing to Mountain Biking: How to Learn Anything
We spend so much of our life in school -- with classes, teachers, tests, and papers. So when structured learning isn’t around anymore, it can be jarring. Like your training wheels just got removed. Noah Kagan, the Chief Sumo at Sumo.com,...
10.17.2017
From Brain Teasers to Technical Tests: How to Fix Hiring in Tech
If you’ve ever applied for a job in tech, you know just how painful it can be. Technical tests consume hours of your time, brain teasers leave you baffled, and culture fit questions juice your stress levels. On top of...
10.10.2017
Building LEGO’s Next Big Move, Brick by Brick
When you’re one of the most recognizable companies on the planet, how do you decide on your next big idea? If you’re Michael McNally, you think about it all the time. Michael is the Senior Director of Brand Relations at...
10.03.2017
How one entrepreneur added 700+ people to her network
Every single day at 9:15 AM, Molly Beck reaches out to a new person in her network. And if you’re trying to get to the next level in your career, you might want to consider doing the same thing. Molly...
09.26.2017
Introducing… Weird Work
Check out HubSpot’s latest podcast, called Weird Work! Each week, host Sam Balter talks with folks who work some of the weirdest jobs out there. The new show features guests like a dinosaur erotica writer, a professional bridesmaid, and an...
09.19.2017
Beyond Meat’s Mission to Convert the Hardcore Carnivore
Innovation is great when it’s in an iPhone. But is it something you want to put inside your mouth? Well get ready, meat industry. Because your days are numbered. Ethan Brown at Beyond Meat is hoping his company’s mission of sustainable,...
09.12.2017
The Future Workforce Is Human to the Bot Power
There’s the hype. Sure. But there’s also the hysteria. For most, bots are either the thing that’ll carry our companies into the future, or they’re a skip away from subjugating the entire human race. Today, we’re talking to Adelyn Zhou,...
09.05.2017
Your office is built for extroverts. Here’s why that’s a problem.
When we look for leadership characteristics, are we really building a workplace made for extroverts? We look for leaders to constantly speak up, network, and think on their feet. But what are we missing by excluding the strengths of introverts? Today...
08.29.2017
Grief Is Inevitable. Why Aren't We Preparing for It at Work?
Four years ago, Karen Millsap’s husband was shot and killed in the gym they co-owned. There was no warning. No response manual. What followed was a time of immense hardship, struggle, and reinvention. Karen joins us to talk about the importance...
08.22.2017
Is Your Company Ready for PR 2.0?
Companies have great stories to tell, but they’re being drowned out by thousands of low-quality messages that journalists receive each day. Ricky Yean and his team at Upbeat realized that the problem is one of coordination. Journalists getting way too...
08.15.2017
How ClassPass is Getting Rid of Your Excuses [Rebroadcast]
When Payal Kadakia quit her job at Warner Music Group, she didn't have a backup plan. She knew she wasn't happy in her job, but she wasn't sure what she wanted to do next. After a few weeks of soul-searching, she...
08.08.2017
Why Chubbies is Tired of Being Called a “Bro”
Not long ago, men’s shorts were long, with as many pockets as possible. But these days, they’re shrinking. And we can trace it all back to four friends with one simple idea. Today, we’re talking with Tom Montgomery, a co-founder of...
08.01.2017
Should Everyone Have an Executive Coach?
To Jerry Colonna, accepting leadership means accepting to work on yourself. Because if you’re struggling personally, your company is probably struggling as well. Jerry is the founder of Reboot, a coaching company that’s helped some of the tech industry’s most...
07.25.2017
Why a Side Hustle Shouldn't Actually Take That Much Hustle
Projects fail. Side-projects fail even more. But every once in awhile, a project comes along that shatters expectations (and maybe even a Google Sheet in the process). Yet all too often, we’re left wondering why? Mikael Cho, the CEO and...
07.18.2017
Stop Looking up to Workaholics Who Look Down on You
When did working 100 hours become the banner for success? And worse, when did it become so damn cool? Luckily, not everyone thinks so. David Heinemeier Hansson is the creator of Ruby on Rails and the founder and CTO of...
07.11.2017
There’s More to Empowering Young People of Color in Tech Than Coding
Tech has a diversity problem. And in recent years we’ve seen a wave of programs aimed at teaching young people of color to code. But the reality is that addressing the diversity problem is about much more than just teaching...
07.04.2017
How Pepsi and SheaMoisture Lost the Heart of Their Brand
Amanda Spann is a serial entrepreneur, and after seeing major judgment errors like Pepsi's tone-deaf Kendall Jenner ad, she launched the site youneedablackperson.com. She meant it as a joke, but it’s rooted in a much larger issue. On today’s episode,...
06.27.2017
Every Chain Stitch Tells a Story at Fort Lonesome
For years, the pace of everyday work has been increasing. But Kathie Sever’s company is a good example of why the future may not be faster. Kathie owns Fort Lonesome, a custom chain stitching outfit in Austin, Texas. After witnessing...
06.20.2017
Taking The Lean Startup from Silicon Valley to the State Department
More than a decade ago, Steve Blank helped lay the groundwork for The Lean Startup movement. Instead of innovating in a vacuum, he told entrepreneurs they needed to get outside and talk to customers. In this episode, Steve explains why...
06.13.2017
Turning the Worst Day of Your Life into Your Life's Work
Six months after Karen Aiach’s daughter Ornella was born, she was diagnosed with Sanfilippo syndrome, a rare genetic disorder. Doctors told Karen her daughter would likely live for just over a decade. Left with no option, she created one herself....
06.06.2017
Rewiring Our Big Dumb Brains (and Culture) for Goodness
In a world of unicorns, Anthony Tjan is an investor looking for sea turtles. He watched first hand as his company went bust the same day the Dotcom bubble burst. And he realized that good, steady growth powered by teams...
05.30.2017
The $21 billion niche Stefania Mallett caters to
If you’ve ever had to cater a meeting, you know the panic that comes along with it. The type of panic that sits deep in the pit of your stomach. Will the food be late? Will it be the same...
05.23.2017
Your productivity app isn’t the problem. You are.
On Monday, you download a new productivity app. On Tuesday, you load it up with all the tasks you need to accomplish. By Friday? You’ve abandoned that list - and you’re in the market for the next new app that’s...
05.16.2017
How $500 Checks Helped Bring a Manufacturing Titan Back From Bankruptcy
Jim Cline was only a few months away from retirement. That is, until a former colleague of his offered him a job most people would run far away from: CFO of a company $134 million in debt. In today’s episode, Jim...
05.09.2017
Who's in Control When Everything On Earth is Connected? [Rebroadcast]
If everything on earth is connected, what does that mean for humanity? This week we’re digging out one of our favorites from the archives. In this episode, Linden Tibbets, CEO of IFTTT, outlines a vision of the world where everything...
05.02.2017
GV's (Google Ventures) Jake Knapp on How to 'Fix' Brainstorming
If you work in some kind of office, you’ve probably spent a good amount of your time in group brainstorms. Sometimes they work, but often you’re left with a ton of really great ideas - and no action. Jake Knapp...
04.25.2017
Hello Alfred Is Bringing W-2 Employment Benefits to the Gig Economy
One criticism of the gig economy is that it takes advantage of employees. Companies like Uber or Lyft classify their employees as independent contractors, disqualifying them from benefits. But Hello Alfred, a personal butler service, started by thinking about work...
04.18.2017
Always Wear Pants: New Rules of Work From The Muse's Kathryn Minshew
Back in 2011, Kathryn Minshew and Alexandra Cavoulacos founded the online career resource The Muse. Six years and 50 million users later, they decided to team up again to write a playbook - The New Rules of Work - for...
04.11.2017
Finding Scale in a Business Where One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Many women find themselves at a point in their career where they’re just stuck. Sometimes it has to do with moving up the ranks in a company, returning to the workforce in general, or even striking out in their own...
04.04.2017
The Myth of Machine Learning & Building a Data Science Team That Works
It seems like every company is trying to come up with an AI and machine learning strategy. Monica Rogati is an independent data science advisor, and she has some news: You can’t just lock a few data scientists in a room...
03.28.2017
When You’re Not Learning Anymore, It’s Time For a Career Change
There are a lot of different ways to move in your career. You can quit and move on to a new company. You can completely reinvent your job, or even reinvent your company. Rachel Blumenthal has moved in her career pretty...
03.21.2017
Product Market Fit Should Be Emotional
Many ecommerce companies face the same two problems: the cost of keeping inventory, and the money they have to swallow when a customer returns an item. Shan-Lyn Ma, the CEO and co-founder of Zola, has dodged both of those problems....
03.14.2017
Facebook's Julie Zhou on How To Design For 2 Billion Users
Julie Zhuo was Facebook’s first intern back in 2006. Today, more than a decade later, she’s their VP of Product Design. You can thank her for the newsfeed, “Reactions”, and a lot more. On today’s episode, Julie tells us how she...
03.07.2017
Reham Fagiri: From Goldman Sachs to Challenging Craigslist
The process of buying and selling used furniture is painful. It’s hard to know what you’re getting and who you’re getting it from. Reham Fagiri started AptDeco to solve that problem. The company has morphed from a scrappy team poaching...
02.28.2017
How Winnie’s Founder Launched a Company as a New Mom & the Spouse of a Cancer Survivor
A few months after Sara Mauskopf launched her first company, her husband was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer. With an infant at home and investors looking for results, Sara had to find a new definition of what “normal”...
02.21.2017
What Vera Fischer Did After Losing Her Job During Maternity Leave
Just 10 weeks into her maternity leave, Vera Fischer was laid off after her company went through a major reorg. Now, 13 years later, she shares how she launched her successful all-in-one advertising and marketing agency, 97 Degrees West. This episode...
02.14.2017
Gimlet Media Co-Founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber *Rebroadcast*
Happy Valentine’s Day! This holiday has everything to do with relationships. And there’s one type of relationship that we talk about a lot on this show: co-founders. In the spirit of the day, we’re bringing back one of our favorite...
02.07.2017
Amazon’s Former Data Scientist on Making Your Data Work For You
In 1949, Andreas Weigend’s father was imprisoned in East Germany by Soviet occupying forces who thought he was an American spy. A decade later, when Andreas tried to find the Stasi file on his father, he instead found one about...
01.31.2017
How Box's Chief Storyteller Bridges the Sales/Marketing Divide: Live at INBOUND16
Before Doug Landis stepped into his current role as the Chief Storyteller at the file-sharing company Box, he was a Senior Director of Sales at Salesforce. In our last episode from INBOUND 2016, Doug explains why having a story to...
01.24.2017
The Inside Story of Making 'Making a Murderer': Live at INBOUND16
It was 2005. Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos borrowed a camera, rented a car, and set out to cover a murder trial in the small town of Manitowoc, Wisconsin. They didn’t realize they were embarking on a decade-long journey to...
01.17.2017
Sarah Cooper on Finding Comedy in the Corporate World: Live at INBOUND16
Sarah Cooper finds the satire in a normal office job in her blog - The Cooper Review. Today, Sarah is a full-time comedian. This week, in our second episode from INBOUND 2016, Sarah tells us how she makes typical life...
01.10.2017
Alec Baldwin: Live at INBOUND16
This week is the first of our episodes from INBOUND 2016. First up is Alec Baldwin -- actor, comedian, and most recently, Donald Trump impersonator on Saturday Night Live. In this episode, he tells us why the role of Jack Donaghy on...
01.03.2017
Dan Pink: Robots Won't Steal Jobs, They'll Transform Them.
Daniel Pink has been a leading voice in business for more than two decades. He’s written five best-selling books about work and management, including “Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us” and “To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth...
12.27.2016
Best of 2016: Bill Walton, Charles Duhigg, Patty McCord & More
We’re looking back on a few of our favorite moments from the show this year. In this episode, we hear from basketball legend Bill Walton about his time working with coach John Wooden, author Charles Duhigg on why the making...
12.20.2016
What One Entrepreneur Learned From 100 Days of Rejection
Getting turned down is painful, whether it’s in your personal or your professional life. After a particularly harsh rejection, Jia Jiang decided to go out and face that pain head on. He purposefully tried to get rejected every day for...
12.13.2016
Swears & Stick Figures: Behind the Charm of Tim Urban's 'Wait But Why'
While most publications are trying to keep their articles short and sweet, Tim Urban from 'Wait But Why' regularly dives deep on his topics, writing thousands of words on a given subject. He also illustrates every post - not with...
12.06.2016
How Hunter Walk Spots Success Before the Spreadsheet Proves Him Right
When seed stage venture capitalist Hunter Walk is evaluating whether to invest in a company, he doesn’t look at the product. To him, it’s all about finding a great team. Before Homebrew, he worked at YouTube and Google - and...
11.29.2016
Escaping the "Good" Trap: The Tough Choices Founders Make to Be Great
There are so many advantages to starting a company that didn’t exist 10 years ago, but founders and CEOs face more competition than ever. At Alchemist Accelerator, Ravi Belani has helped budding companies navigate these changes - and as a...

What's The Growth Show about?

Download our free app to listen on your phone

The Growth Show episodes:

The Turnaround: Coming Soon

We’ll See You in 2018!

From Marketing to Mountain Biking: How to Learn Anything

From Brain Teasers to Technical Tests: How to Fix Hiring in Tech

Building LEGO’s Next Big Move, Brick by Brick

How one entrepreneur added 700+ people to her network

Introducing… Weird Work

Beyond Meat’s Mission to Convert the Hardcore Carnivore

The Future Workforce Is Human to the Bot Power

Your office is built for extroverts. Here’s why that’s a problem.

Grief Is Inevitable. Why Aren't We Preparing for It at Work?

Is Your Company Ready for PR 2.0?

How ClassPass is Getting Rid of Your Excuses [Rebroadcast]

Why Chubbies is Tired of Being Called a “Bro”

Should Everyone Have an Executive Coach?

Why a Side Hustle Shouldn't Actually Take That Much Hustle

Stop Looking up to Workaholics Who Look Down on You

There’s More to Empowering Young People of Color in Tech Than Coding

How Pepsi and SheaMoisture Lost the Heart of Their Brand

Every Chain Stitch Tells a Story at Fort Lonesome

Taking The Lean Startup from Silicon Valley to the State Department

Turning the Worst Day of Your Life into Your Life's Work

Rewiring Our Big Dumb Brains (and Culture) for Goodness

The $21 billion niche Stefania Mallett caters to

Your productivity app isn’t the problem. You are.

How $500 Checks Helped Bring a Manufacturing Titan Back From Bankruptcy

Who's in Control When Everything On Earth is Connected? [Rebroadcast]

GV's (Google Ventures) Jake Knapp on How to 'Fix' Brainstorming

Hello Alfred Is Bringing W-2 Employment Benefits to the Gig Economy

Always Wear Pants: New Rules of Work From The Muse's Kathryn Minshew

Finding Scale in a Business Where One Size Doesn’t Fit All

The Myth of Machine Learning & Building a Data Science Team That Works

When You’re Not Learning Anymore, It’s Time For a Career Change

Product Market Fit Should Be Emotional

Facebook's Julie Zhou on How To Design For 2 Billion Users

Reham Fagiri: From Goldman Sachs to Challenging Craigslist

How Winnie’s Founder Launched a Company as a New Mom & the Spouse of a Cancer Survivor

What Vera Fischer Did After Losing Her Job During Maternity Leave

Gimlet Media Co-Founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber *Rebroadcast*

Amazon’s Former Data Scientist on Making Your Data Work For You

How Box's Chief Storyteller Bridges the Sales/Marketing Divide: Live at INBOUND16

The Inside Story of Making 'Making a Murderer': Live at INBOUND16

Sarah Cooper on Finding Comedy in the Corporate World: Live at INBOUND16

Alec Baldwin: Live at INBOUND16

Dan Pink: Robots Won't Steal Jobs, They'll Transform Them.

Best of 2016: Bill Walton, Charles Duhigg, Patty McCord & More

What One Entrepreneur Learned From 100 Days of Rejection

Swears & Stick Figures: Behind the Charm of Tim Urban's 'Wait But Why'

How Hunter Walk Spots Success Before the Spreadsheet Proves Him Right

Escaping the "Good" Trap: The Tough Choices Founders Make to Be Great

Gimlet Media Co-Founders Alex Blumberg and Matt Lieber Rebroadcast