<p>In this episode, Foti Panagio (<a href='http://growthmentor.com'>GrowthMentor</a>) talks about:</p><ul><li>Hiring freelancers to learn from them as a personal growth hack</li><li>Why competitors should not deter you from starting your business</li><li>How to balance bootstrapping with building a great product</li><li>Starting with a minimum lovable product instead of an MVP</li><li>Using social proof as a way to kickstart his initial growth</li><li>Using karma as his north star metric</li></ul><p>Podcast information:</p><ul><li><a href='https://www.theravenry.com/growthmultiplier'>Website</a></li><li><a href='https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/growthmultiplier'>LinkedIn</a></li><li><a href='https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/1576762.rss'>Feed</a></li><li><a href='https://twitter.com/rickywillianto'>Host: Ricky Willianto</a></li></ul>

How StashAway got to $1B AUM in 3.5 years with Michele Ferrario (StashAway)

The pursuit of growth is never-ending for any business - from a small startup all the way to a large global corporation. The Growth Multiplier podcast examines pathways, strategies, and hacks companies have explored and tested in their efforts to scale up their businesses. In each episode, host Ricky Willianto - co-founder of Ravenry - speaks with CEO's, growth hackers, product managers, and marketers all around Asia to find nuggets of wisdom and insights from their journey multiplying growth. Ricky and his guests discuss viral marketing, community building, pricing strategies, channel development, and also company culture and people. Growth Multiplier explores not only replicable successes, but also phenomenal failures that we all can learn from.