00:00 Ross' bio

02:20 How to think about and forecast growth models

05:50 How Vimeo scaled 4x user growth and 3x revenue growth, and how Braid

09:15 How Braid went from 0 to $1M revenue in under 6M

12:20 Quantitative growth model in action. Step 1 - Set up & inputs.

23:20 Step 2 - The 1% exercise

24:30 Step 3 - Action items

25:10 Step 4 - Measuring impact & reiteration

31:00 When to build the first growth model

37:00 How to reach Ross

Resources:

- End-to-end growth creation plan at Braid: https://www.reforge.com/artifacts/end...

- How to build a growth-creation plan: https://www.fishmanafnewsletter.com/p...

About Ross Nazarenko:

- ex-Growth PM at Vimeo (achieved 4x user and 3x revenue growth)

- ex-Growth Manager at Bird ($783M funding)

- ex-Senior Growth Manager at Braid (grew from 0 to $1M revenue in under 6M)

- Top 3 Reforge contributor

- Part of Sequoia’s 1% talent pool

- Linkedin:  

 / ruslannazarenko  

About BADideas.fund:

BADideas.fund is an early stage angel syndicate, led by helpful founders & operators, that provides €50K-€200K funding for CEE startups. Since launching at TechChill '22, we have invested over €2M, and our global member pool keeps growing, spanning 200+ members from 20 countries and counting.

Our members are founders and operators, who’ve been building such companies as Vimeo ($450M funding), Printify ($54M), Pandadoc ($51M), Pipedrive ($90M), Bolt ($1.3B funding), Apollo ($151M), Bird ($783M funding), Shopify ($122M), Whimsical ($30M), Lokalise ($56M), Deel ($679M), Printful ($130M), Twilio ($614M), Veriff ($192.3M), Wise ($1.3B raised), Interactio ($30M raised), Vinted ($562.3M), NordVPN ($100M), Hubspot ($100.5M).