Sarah Stockdale: How She Built A Life As A Growth Hacker Scaling Early Stage Technology Companies

Drown the Noise

What's a growth hacker, anyways? Unless you are familiar with the tech lingo, you may not know what a growth hacker is, little own what they do for a living. This isn't your typical marketing job. Growth hackers are basically creative, data driven individuals, who love looking at the numbers in order to see where and how a company can improve.

They think fast and fail fast. And Sarah is one of these experts. She didn't ever think she'd end up in this line of work. She actually turned down a high paying corporate PR job at the start of her career, and took a chance working at a startup. Keep in mind, this was at the beginning of the startup craze - over ten years ago. So her choice wasn't the "cool" one. People thought she was nuts. But she loved the idea of being able to test out ideas with minimal supervision.

In this episode we discuss everything from taking chances, failing fast, learning how to read data and understand its meaning, growth hacking tips and tricks, taking an unconventional path and how to set out on your own as an entrepreneur! This one is packed full of insights if you have a tech business or work in the tech/marketing field.