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3 hacks that can skyrocket user growth for your new product
Lessons from Slack (and other companies that achieved crazy growth)
8 min readFeb 12, 2017
Every time I see this gif on the internet, it just BLOWS MY MIND.
This is the story of Slack’s explosive growth over the past 3 years. For any software business, that growth story is dream state.
As unbelievable as Slack’s growth story is , what’s even more unbelievable is that Slack achieved this phenomenal user growth WITHOUT a dedicated outbound sales team.
Wait, no way right?
Wrong. For the first several years Slack had no salespeople, instead they (and many other companies since) took a product first approach to grow. Letting word of mouth do most of the selling itself.
Here’s how I started using it . Having tried several different enterprise messaging applications in the…
