The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth

By Volodymyr Khomichenko

The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth explores how the world's most successful technology companies use marketing to accelerate growth.

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August 21, 2026 SiteGround. How Marketing Maverickism Drove Product Innovation
This episode explores how a small bootstrapped team from a Sofia dorm room built SiteGround into a global hosting powerhouse — not by outspending giants on paid ads, but by using SEO as a discovery engine, turning customer support into an R&D pipeline, and staying independently owned long enough to bet on quality over quick exits. The core insight: marketing done right doesn't just sell a product — it tells you what to build next.
About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

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Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
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📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
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Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
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Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
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12min
August 20, 2026 The Browser Company. How Radical Transparency Built a $610 Million Story
This episode explores how The Browser Company of New York transformed a stagnant, twenty-year-old market into a $610 million acquisition story — not by out-engineering Chrome, but by out-trusting it. Through radical transparency, narrative-led marketing, and the painful decision to abandon their beloved product Arc for a new AI-native browser called Dia, founder Josh Miller and his team show what it takes to build a movement around a product category everyone assumed was already settled.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
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12min
August 19, 2026 Attio. How a 1,000-Day Gamble Redefined CRM
This episode traces how Attio's founders walked away from a profitable startup to spend nearly three years building an unproven CRM architecture from scratch, and how that patient bet on infrastructure was matched by an equally deliberate marketing strategy — one built on public building, influencer-driven distribution, and a product "magic moment" engineered to sell itself. The core lesson: in a category where trust is scarce and switching costs are high, architecture and brand aren't separate workstreams — they're the same growth engine.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
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12min
August 18, 2026 Airtable. How High-Signal Marketing Defined the No-Code Era
This episode traces Airtable's journey from a three-year stealth build to an $11.7 billion decacorn, examining how founder Howie Liu used strategic patience, "high-signal" marketing like San Francisco billboards, and a radical self-disruption to keep the company relevant through the generative AI wave. The core lesson: marketing built on trust and legitimacy can outperform lead generation, and durable companies are built on primitives, not just products.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
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10min
August 17, 2026 n8n. How Community Adoption Built the "Excel of AI"
This episode traces n8n's journey from a Hollywood pipeline technical director's side project to a $5.2 billion orchestration layer for the AI era, exploring how founder Jan Oberhauser solved the "80% wall" of no-code automation, pivoted the entire product at the height of its stability, and made the counterintuitive decision to abandon lead generation in favor of community-led adoption—turning marketing into an endowment for evangelists rather than a funnel for sales.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
11min
August 14, 2026 Make.com. How an SEO Gamble Fueled a Global Rise
This episode traces the journey of Integromat, a bootstrapped Czech automation startup that spent four years building in silence before becoming a cult favorite in the no-code world, through its acquisition by Celonis and its bold, controversial rebrand into Make.com. It's a story about the tension between product obsession and brand ambition — and what happens when a company deliberately sacrifices search visibility for a shot at global category ownership.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
10min
August 13, 2026 Midjourney. How Social Distribution Redefined Product-Led Growth
This episode explores how Midjourney built a $200 million annual revenue business with just eleven employees and zero venture capital, by turning image generation into a communal, social experience on Discord rather than a private tool. We examine the strategic decisions behind the company's growth: the choice to build on borrowed infrastructure, the deliberate optimization for beauty over photorealism, and the radical transparency that turned users into an unpaid marketing army. The core lesson is that community, when built into the product itself, can outperform even the most well-funded advertising budgets.
About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
13min
August 12, 2026 OpenAI. How Iterative Deployment Turned a Research Lab Into an Infrastructure Giant
This episode traces OpenAI's journey from a ten-person research lab with no product to a company serving hundreds of millions of weekly users and negotiating hundred-billion-dollar infrastructure deals. The core growth insight: OpenAI didn't win by building a perfect product and launching it once. It won by releasing early, letting the world adapt in public, and using mission-driven narrative as both a talent magnet and a marketing engine — turning conviction, timing, and story into a moat that outlasted any single model release.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
12min
August 08, 2026 Dribbble. How Community Marketing Engineered a Marketplace
This episode traces Dribbble's fifteen-year journey from an invite-only side project for designers into a profitable, bootstrapped marketplace business. It examines how a manufactured-scarcity launch strategy, product-led SEO, and warehouse-driven email marketing built a loyal community—and how a controversial 2024 policy change, despite public backlash, ultimately proved that aligning marketing and product around real user value matters more than nostalgia.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
12min
August 07, 2026 Behance. How Unscalable Marketing Solved the Cold-Start Problem
This episode traces how Behance, founded by Scott Belsky, escaped the classic two-sided marketplace trap by trading scalable growth hacks for deliberately manual, high-touch marketing. From a failed focus group that redirected the entire product vision to a content strategy that hand-built the platform's first inventory of world-class work, Behance's story shows how empathy, disciplined feature-pruning, and obsessive attention to a user's first thirty seconds can turn a crowded, disorganized industry into a $150 million acquisition by Adobe.

About the podcast
The voice you hear in this podcast is AI-generated, but every idea, insight, analysis, and editorial decision comes from Volodymyr Khomichenko.
Volodymyr Khomichenko is a Tech B2B Marketing Strategist and Senior Marketing Director at Zoolatech with 12+ years of marketing experience, including 8+ years leading marketing teams in B2B technology companies.
🌐 Website:⁠ ⁠⁠https://khomichenko.com⁠

Newsletters
📩 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (LinkedIn)
Deep dives into growth, marketing leadership, AI, and the systems behind successful companies.
→ Subscribe: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/marketing-behind-rapid-growth-7472018686078472192/⁠

📬 The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth (Substack)
Exclusive articles, case studies, frameworks, and behind-the-scenes insights on marketing, business growth, leadership, and AI.
→ Subscribe for free: ⁠https://substack.com/@rapidgrowth⁠

Book - The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0H6VHNRMG ⁠

Connect with Volodymyr
⁠https://www.linkedin.com/in/volodymyrkh/⁠
⁠https://x.com/V_Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.threads.com/@khomichenko⁠ ⁠
https://amazon.com/author/khomichenko⁠
⁠https://www.producthunt.com/@khomichenko⁠
⁠https://medium.com/@Khomichenko⁠
⁠https://hackernoon.com/u/khomichenko⁠

Disclaimer
This podcast is based on publicly available information, industry research, company statements, and independent analysis. The views and interpretations presented are intended solely for educational and informational purposes and should not be considered investment, legal, financial, or business advice.
...more
11min

FAQs about The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth:

How many episodes does The Marketing Behind Rapid Growth have?

The podcast currently has 57 episodes available.