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growth hacker

growth hacker noun: someone who is skilled in both marketing and programming, and utilises these skills to grow the user base of a startup.

Noun

growth hacker (plural growth hackers)

  1. (Internet) Someone who is skilled in both marketing and programming, and utilises these skills to grow the user base of a startup.
    • Josh Elman, a growth hacker at Twitter, recognized early on that it was possible to "focus on understanding your users and how they discover and adopt your products [and to] build features that help you acquire and retain more users, rather than just spending marketing dollars."2013 July 8, Ryan Holiday, “The Secret That Defines Marketing Now”, in Fast Company

Forms of growth hacker

pluralgrowth hackers

Questions about growth hacker

What does growth hacker mean?
Growth hacker means someone who is skilled in both marketing and programming, and utilises these skills to grow the user base of a startup.
What part of speech is growth hacker?
Growth hacker is a noun.
What is the plural of growth hacker?
The plural of growth hacker is growth hackers.

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