A startup founder I follow who chewed through nearly $80M in VC funding over several years to create a messy and still-unprofitable business is tweetstorming his growth hacking tips & tricks this morning.
Since people are guessing it's me. Fact check time: 9.5 yrs in we've raised *only* $77M & still have ~70% of it the bank. We've been profitable in the past for many years & could turn the ship to be profitable if it was helpful. Steadily closing in on $100M. Zero interest in VC.
Thanks. Please stop hatin' on us. You've been doing it since 2017 (I looked at some history).
Consider doing something productive with your energy. Did not appreciate you saying I am "failing up" & assuming the worst of my intentions while writing.
Mixpanel is amazing product and you guys are doing great ...I RT'd Blair without knowing the thread of people involved, purely bc growth hacks are garbage marketing and all of us are so much better than that.
Btw the growth of the consumer stuff is way different than B2B imo. Like idk that including the house party app on your thread is instructive for the products we work on. This is a bigger discussion than just twitter we should all do podcast or something.
Got it. I still think the b2b stuff so much more interesting having worked on several marketing automation companies in early stage & now enterprise stuff. So few understand the markets/buyers/pain points or how to drive organic and paid properly. SV undervalues good marketers.
Last but not least. Since he didn't disclose it, I will. Disclosure: @BlairReeves co-wrote a book on "Building products for the Enterprise" with a Group PM who makes products at our incumbent: Adobe Analytics. 🤷🏾♂️
I get why this is personal to you. MP is your baby, right? Rest assured, it is not personal to me. MP is just some company to me. And I’m just not that impressed with it.
But look - who cares about my reasons? You’re an ex-founder millionaire with tons of free time now! Go have a margarita, man! I’m just some idiot working schmoe on twitter. Why are you blowing up my DMs like this? Why do you care?
As an outsider to this quarrel: - Blair you seem pretty biased and clearly you have a dog in this fight (should have disclosed) - Calling Mixpanel messy seems pretty unfair to say the least