Growth Loops

The correct mental model for how companies grow. Coined by Brian Balfour (Reforge, ex-VP Growth HubSpot), Casey Winters (ex-Growth Lead Pinterest/Grubhub), Kevin Kwok, and Andrew Chen (a16z). A growth loop is a closed system where the output of one cycle becomes the input to the next, creating compounding growth. The core question every founder must answer: “How does one cohort of users lead to another cohort of users?”

Why Loops, Not Funnels

The AARRR pirate metrics funnel (Dave McClure, 2007) has been the dominant growth framework for nearly two decades. Balfour argues it is fundamentally wrong:

	Funnels	Loops
Shape	Linear: top to bottom	Circular: output feeds back as input
Compounding	None. More in at top = more out at bottom. Period.	Built-in. Each cycle generates inputs for the next.
Sustainability	Requires constant new investment at the top	Self-reinforcing once spinning
Org design	Creates siloed teams per stage (acquisition, activation, retention)	Forces cross-functional thinking about the whole system
Core question	”Where’s the bottleneck in our funnel?"	"How does one cohort of users lead to another?”
Diminishing/compounding	Diminishing returns as channels saturate	Compounding returns as loops strengthen

Three specific problems with funnels:

1. No reinvestment mechanism. Funnels have no concept of how to reinvest what comes out at the bottom to feed growth at the top. There is no compounding effect.
2. Too micro a view. AARRR explains a specific step within a growth loop but misses the larger picture. It cannot answer “how does your product grow?”
3. Creates organizational silos. Separate teams optimize each stage in isolation, often at the expense of the whole system.

The fastest-growing companies — Facebook, Dropbox, LinkedIn, Notion, Spotify — did not grow primarily through advertising spend. They grew because their products were architecturally designed to generate their own demand. Users who derived value created conditions that brought in new users, who created more value, completing the loop.

The Taxonomy: Four Types of Growth Loops

1. Viral Loops

Users become the distribution channel. The product spreads through human networks.

Subtypes by mechanism:

Subtype	How It Works	Example
Word of mouth	Users tell others outside the product	”You should try Linear”
Organic viral	Natural usage invites non-users	Slack message to external person; Zoom meeting link
Embedded viral (casual contact)	Non-users encounter the brand through others’ usage	SurveyMonkey survey recipients; Mailchimp email footers
Incentivized viral	Financial reward for sharing	Dropbox 500MB/referral; PayPal $10/referral

Subtypes by value promise to the distributor:

• Social capital — Being seen as helpful or in-the-know (works for novel products)
• Personal capital — Direct utility, the product works better with more people (Slack, Figma)
• Financial capital — Monetary reward for referring (Dropbox, PayPal)

As markets mature, the incentive shifts: social capital (new products get free recommendations) to financial capital (mature products must pay for referrals).

Requirements: Quick time-to-value, broad value proposition applicable across user networks, and ideally network effects that strengthen the product as more people join.

The Slack viral loop:

1. User sends message to non-Slack user
2. Recipient gets invitation to join workspace
3. Recipient joins, experiences value in minutes (short time-to-value)
4. New user invites their own contacts to Slack
5. Loop repeats, expanding workspace by workspace

2. Content Loops

Content created within or about the product attracts new users from outside the platform.

Two dimensions:

Who creates the content?

• User-generated — Pinterest pins, Reddit posts, Quora answers, TripAdvisor reviews
• Company-generated — HubSpot blog, Intercom blog, Zapier integration pages
• Supplier-generated — Airbnb listings, Eventbrite event pages

How is it distributed?

• SEO — Google indexes content; users find it through search
• Social — Users share content to social platforms, driving traffic back

These dimensions are not mutually exclusive. Pinterest uses both user-generated content and SEO distribution. HubSpot uses company-generated content with both SEO and social distribution.

The Pinterest content loop (step by step):

1. New user signs up (or existing user returns)
2. User creates a pin or saves to a board (user-generated content)
3. Pinterest optimizes that content for Google indexing
4. New user finds that content via Google search
5. New user signs up, creates more pins
6. Loop repeats — more content = more searchable pages = more traffic = more users = more content

This is the loop Casey Winters built after Pinterest lost its Facebook API distribution channel. It grew Pinterest from 40M to 200M+ users.

The HubSpot content loop:

1. HubSpot publishes blog post, free tool, or template
2. Content ranks in Google or gets shared socially
3. Reader signs up for free tool or newsletter
4. Some convert to paid CRM/Marketing Hub customers
5. Revenue funds more content creation
6. Loop repeats with an ever-growing content library

3. Paid Loops

Revenue from customers is reinvested into paid acquisition channels.

1. Acquire users through paid channels (Google Ads, Facebook Ads)
2. Users convert to paying customers
3. Revenue reinvested into more paid acquisition
4. Loop repeats with (theoretically) growing budget

The critical weakness: Paid loops inherently decline. As you expand targeting beyond your initial high-performing audience, conversion rates drop at every funnel step. You end up paying more for worse customers.

At HubSpot, Balfour deployed paid marketing at $0.40-0.50 per acquisition via Facebook — but explicitly as an accelerator to other loops, not as the primary growth engine.

Anti-pattern: Blue Apron. Spent $400 CAC for customers worth less than $200 annually, with 72% churn at 6 months. They masked the retention problem by spending more on acquisition — “replacing high-value customers with worse customers at higher prices.” The paid loop without retention is a death spiral.

4. Sales Loops

Revenue funds hiring more salespeople, who generate more revenue.

1. Sales team acquires new customers
2. Customer revenue funds hiring additional sales reps
3. Expanded team acquires more customers
4. Loop repeats at larger scale

Works when ARPU is high enough to justify CAC. This is Salesforce’s core growth loop: more revenue ⇒ more reps ⇒ more revenue.

How Loops Connect: The Growth Model

Most companies have multiple loops operating simultaneously. The growth model is a qualitative and quantitative map of how your product grows, used to identify the largest constraints and most significant leverage points.

Three ways to improve growth:

1. Optimize — Increase conversion at each step within existing loops
2. Add loops — Create new complementary loops (HubSpot has 6+ interconnected loops)
3. Increase linear inputs — Boost channels feeding into loops (PR, events, partnerships)

The 80/20 rule applies: One or two loops will do the heavy lifting for acquisition. Identify those and pour resources into them.

HubSpot’s interconnected loops:

• Inbound marketing content loop (company-generated SEO)
• Free tools loop (CRM, Website Grader)
• Integrations loop (partners build on platform)
• Sales loop (revenue ⇒ hire reps ⇒ more revenue)
• Email marketing loop (users create emails ⇒ recipients see HubSpot)
• Content sharing loop (readers share blog posts socially)

Result: 14x return since 2014 IPO.

Airbnb’s five mini-loops:

• SEO loop: listings rank on Google ⇒ travelers find Airbnb
• Host promotion loop: hosts promote their listings ⇒ travelers discover Airbnb
• Review loop: travelers leave reviews ⇒ increased demand
• Host invite loop: hosts invite other hosts ⇒ more supply
• Guest invite loop: travelers invite friends ⇒ more demand

The Four Fits: Why Some Loops Work and Others Don’t

Growth loops don’t operate in isolation. Balfour’s Four Fits framework explains why some companies grow effortlessly (“Smooth Sailers”) while others struggle despite great execution (“Tugboats”):

1. Market-Product Fit

The market has a real problem your product solves. Start here, not with the product.

2. Product-Channel Fit

“Products are built to fit with channels. Channels do not mold to products.”

You don’t control the channel’s rules. So your product must be architecturally designed for its primary distribution channel:

• Viral channels require short time-to-value, broad value proposition, network effects
• UGC SEO channels require user-generated content at scale with core motivation for contribution
• Paid channels require rapid time-to-value and transactional monetization

Distribution follows a power law: 70%+ of growth typically comes from a single dominant channel. Don’t diversify distribution early. Find the one that works and pour everything in.

When product-channel fit breaks: Pinterest grew via Facebook’s Open Graph API (viral sharing). When Facebook killed the API in late 2012, Pinterest’s growth stalled. Winters rebuilt around SEO — successfully transitioning the loop type. Most companies that lose product-channel fit die. Each channel era creates new winners (Match via banner ads ⇒ PlentyOfFish via SEO ⇒ Tinder via mobile).

3. Channel-Model Fit

Your business model economics must work with your channel:

• High ARPU ($10K+) ⇒ can afford enterprise sales CAC
• Medium ARPU ($100-$1K) ⇒ self-serve with content/SEO
• Low ARPU (<$100) ⇒ must be viral or mass marketing
• The “dead zone” ($1K-$10K) kills companies because no channel is economically viable

4. Model-Market Fit

ARPU x Total Addressable Customers x Realistic Capture % >= $100M

If the math doesn’t work, adjust ARPU, market focus, or accept a smaller outcome.

All four must align simultaneously. Excelling at one while failing at another creates the Tugboat effect — high effort, low growth. Terrible products with aligned fits outgrow amazing products fighting market headwinds.

Casey Winters: The Content Loop Playbook

Winters developed a specific methodology for building content loops, tested at Pinterest (40M to 200M+ users) and Grubhub (30K users to $10B IPO):

The 5-Step Process

Step 1: Find user-generated content assets. “Do I have some sort of asset being created that I can lean into?” Content doesn’t need to be complex — reviews, boards, event pages, and geographic listings all work.

Step 2: Give users incentive and mechanism to share. Make sharing frictionless. YouTube’s embed feature and Musical.ly’s in-app recording/sharing are examples. Identify where your users congregate.

Step 3: Identify and dominate your community. Determine where your audience lives and double down. Pinterest’s audience lived on Google search. Grubhub’s lived on local search. Don’t spread across every channel.

Step 4: Trace traffic back to optimize product. Segment new users by source and match the product experience to their intent. Pinterest discovered Google searchers expected topic-based feeds, not friend content. Changing onboarding from friend-based to topic-based dramatically improved activation and reduced demographic skew.

Step 5: Convert, activate, add strategic friction. Only introduce friction after demonstrating value. Pinterest tested scroll-blocking after showing related pins: “If you’ve created value, you can feel comfortable introducing some friction.”

Kindle vs. Fire

SEO is a “fire strategy” — it compounds over time through domain authority and content volume, but it’s hard to ignite quickly. Viral tactics are “kindle” — they can spark initial growth but often don’t sustain. The best strategies sequence kindle first (viral tactics, manual outreach) then transition to fire (content loops, SEO).

Company Growth Loop Map

Company	Primary Loop	Secondary Loops	Key Metric
Pinterest	UGC Content + SEO	Social sharing	200M+ users, $12B valuation
LinkedIn	Network/Contact Viral	Content + Sales	1B MAU, 20+ years of loop execution
HubSpot	Company Content + SEO	Free tools, sales, integrations, social	14x return since 2014 IPO
Slack	Organic Viral	Content (Slack blog)	Fastest to $1M ARR at time of launch
Dropbox	Incentivized Viral	Content sharing	500MB/referral drove millions of signups
SurveyMonkey	Embedded Viral	Content + SEO	Brand exposure through every survey sent
Eventbrite	Marketplace Content	Creator-to-buyer conversion	Buyer ⇒ creator conversion drove supply
Airbnb	Multi-loop (5 loops)	SEO, host/guest invites, reviews	Each loop feeds the others
Salesforce	Sales Loop	Platform/ecosystem	Revenue ⇒ hire reps ⇒ more revenue

Seven Loops Dissected: Step-by-Step Mechanics

Figma: The Collaboration Loop

The most powerful viral loop in B2B SaaS — sharing your work requires sharing your tool.

1. Designer creates a file in Figma (browser-based, zero installation barrier)
2. Designer shares a link with a PM, developer, or stakeholder for feedback
3. Recipient clicks the link — must create a free Figma account to view or comment
4. New user now has an account and starts using Figma for their own work
5. New user shares their own files with others — cycle repeats across the organization

What makes it compound: For every 1 designer acquired, approximately 2 non-designers get pulled in (PMs, developers, marketers, executives). This expands the addressable market from “people who design” to “people who participate in the design process.” The viral coefficient was >1, meaning each user brought in more than one new user on average.

Reinvestment step: Each new user becomes a node that shares files with their own network, expanding the loop geometrically within and across organizations.

Key data: 70% of Figma’s larger enterprise deals started with a single user on a Professional plan — the bottom-up wedge described in product-led-growth. Browser-native architecture means zero friction between receiving a link and becoming a user. No download, no install, no IT approval. The act of doing design work IS the act of distributing Figma.

Notion: The Template-Community Loop

A multi-layered loop system combining templates, community, and collaboration.

The template loop:

1. User discovers Notion through a template shared on Reddit, Twitter, or Google
2. Signs up to use the template (low friction — template solves an immediate need)
3. Onboarding personalizes template suggestions — user explores more use cases
4. User customizes templates and creates their own
5. User shares templates on Reddit (226K members in r/Notion), Twitter (303K followers), Gumroad, YouTube
6. Others discover, sign up, customize, share — repeat

The community loop:

• Started with 30 internal templates at launch — community created thousands
• Community members built entire businesses selling Notion templates (Notion takes zero revenue from creators)
• Notion Pros ambassador program: started with 20 handpicked ambassadors, grew to hundreds
• Ambassadors function as free customer success, sales, and marketing — extending the team without headcount

What makes it compound: “Come for X, stay for Y” — users arrive for one template (habit tracker) but discover deeper use cases (team wiki, project management, CRM). Each use case creates new templates that attract users with different needs. The template universe expands with every cycle.

Reinvestment step: User-created templates, distributed across social and search, attract new users with different use cases, who create templates for their use cases, expanding the template universe further.

Key data: 95% organic traffic. 100M+ users. $600M ARR (Dec 2025). The community essentially runs acquisition — the company barely advertises.

Superhuman: The Status-Referral Loop

Multiple interlocking loops creating artificial scarcity and social proof.

Loop 1 — Signature loop: User sends email ⇒ “Sent via Superhuman” signature visible to every recipient ⇒ recipients become curious ⇒ join waitlist.

Loop 2 — Seamless referral loop: User emails a non-Superhuman contact ⇒ sidebar shows “Refer” button ⇒ CMD-K shortcut ⇒ friend receives invite. No separate referral flow; referral is embedded in the core action of emailing.

Loop 3 — Status/waitlist loop: Invite-only access ⇒ 450K+ person waitlist ⇒ exclusivity creates demand ⇒ being on Superhuman = status signal among tech professionals ⇒ more people want in.

Loop 4 — Social proof loop: “Inbox Zero Day” campaigns ⇒ users tweet HitZero ⇒ followers discover Superhuman ⇒ join waitlist. Referral rewards doubled during events.

What makes it compound: Each loop reinforces the others. The signature creates awareness, the waitlist creates scarcity, the status signal makes referral feel like a gift rather than spam, and the high-touch onboarding (30-minute call) ensures only activated users enter the loop — producing higher-quality evangelists.

Reinvestment step: Status signal ⇒ social proof ⇒ more demand ⇒ longer waitlist ⇒ more scarcity ⇒ stronger status signal.

Key strategic choice: Early users were deliberately selected — startup founders, VCs, people with large followings and professional networks. The first 1,000 users were all people who would talk about the product. This is doing things that don’t scale in service of a loop that will.

Key data: Waitlist grew from 220K (2019, with ~15K paying users at $30/mo) to 450K+ (Aug 2021).

Slack: The Team Invitation Loop (Cross-Organizational Spread)

Beyond the basic viral mechanics described above, Slack’s loop has a unique property: it crosses organizational boundaries.

1. One person creates a workspace
2. Slack nudges them to invite their team (pre-filled prompts, suggested emails) — “Slack only works when you’re not using it alone”
3. Team members join — product becomes useful — daily habit forms
4. Teams invite other departments and external collaborators
5. When someone changes jobs, they bring Slack to their new company
6. New company adopts Slack — cycle repeats at the next organization

What makes it compound: Unlike most viral loops that grow within a network, Slack’s loop jumps across company boundaries every time an employee changes jobs. Each churned user becomes an acquisition agent at a new organization.

Reinvestment step: Activated team ⇒ members change jobs ⇒ bring Slack to new company ⇒ activate new team.

Key data: Teams invited an average of 3.2 new members per existing user within 30 days. Growth trajectory: 8K users (beta day 1) ⇒ 285K DAUs (1 year) ⇒ 1M+ DAUs (2 years) ⇒ 10M+ DAUs ⇒ $27.7B acquisition.

Pinterest: The Content-SEO Loop (Deep Dive)

The full Casey Winters story, covered above in the Content Loops section, is worth emphasizing as the canonical example: 40M to 200M+ users by making user-generated content indexable by Google. The critical insight was that SEO-acquired users had higher retention than social-acquired users — the loop attracted better users, not just more users.

HubSpot: The Content-to-Customer Loop

Also described above. The distinctive feature is that HubSpot didn’t just create a content loop — they created the category (“inbound marketing”) that their content addressed. They generated the demand they then captured. Revenue funds more content, which attracts more leads, which become more customers. The flywheel model they adopted in 2018 explicitly replaces the funnel: Attract ⇒ Engage ⇒ Delight ⇒ customers power the Attract phase.

The AI Data Flywheel

The defining growth loop of the AI era — usage itself improves the product.

1. Users interact with AI product (queries, prompts, code completions)
2. Interactions generate training and feedback data (explicit ratings, implicit signals like accept/reject/regenerate)
3. Data improves the model (fine-tuning, RLHF, retrieval improvements)
4. Better model creates a better product experience
5. Better product attracts more users and increases usage
6. More users generate more data — cycle accelerates

Company examples:

• Tesla: 300M+ miles of real-world driving data improves Full Self-Driving, attracting more buyers who generate more data
• ChatGPT: 1M users in 5 days; interaction data refines responses; better product attracted 100M+ users
• GitHub Copilot: Users accept/reject code suggestions, providing implicit feedback that trains better completions
• Perplexity: 780M monthly queries improve search quality, driving 45M active users, who generate more queries

What makes it compound: “Think of it like compound interest for your AI product.” Each interaction makes the product slightly better, which attracts slightly more users, who generate slightly more data.

Why it’s a moat: A competitor entering later must “not just match your current quality but overcome the momentum of your data flywheel.” Public internet data has been extensively scraped — differentiation comes from proprietary behavioral data that only incumbents with users can accumulate. As the Tesla example shows: “data often beats algorithms.”

Growth Loops vs Flywheels (Jim Collins)

Jim Collins’ flywheel (from Good to Great, 2001): a massive 5,000-pound metal disk that requires immense initial effort but builds momentum until it spins with “almost unstoppable momentum.” The concept predates growth loops by 17 years.

The relationship:

	Growth Loop	Flywheel
Definition	A single self-reinforcing cycle	Multiple interconnected loops + competitive advantages
Time horizon	Can be fast (weeks to months)	Slow to start, decades to compound
Sustainability	May or may not be durable	Durable by definition — includes moats
Risk	Can spike then crash	Resists disruption once spinning
Example	HQ Trivia’s referral loop	Amazon’s three interlocking loops

A flywheel is a growth loop plus competitive advantages — network-effects, switching costs, economies of scale, brand, proprietary technology. Without advantages, loops can spike then crash.

The cautionary tale: HQ Trivia built a viral referral loop (invite friends = earn lives) and grew to 2M+ DAUs. But it had zero competitive advantages — no network effects, no switching costs, no proprietary technology, no brand loyalty. When novelty faded, it collapsed. Loops without flywheels are fragile.

Amazon’s flywheel — the gold standard — runs three interlocking loops simultaneously:

1. Customer loop: Better experience ⇒ more customers ⇒ more sellers ⇒ greater selection ⇒ better experience
2. Price loop: More customers ⇒ lower unit costs ⇒ lower prices ⇒ more customers
3. Logistics loop: More customers ⇒ optimized delivery ⇒ faster/cheaper shipping ⇒ more customers

Each loop reinforces the others, and each creates competitive advantages (scale economics, network effects, brand habit) that make the whole system harder to replicate.

Six flywheel advantages (from the analysis framework): direct network effects, economies of scale, two-sided network effects, switching costs, brand habit, proprietary technology. Companies with 3+ of these advantages build the strongest flywheels.

How Growth Loops Connect to Other Frameworks

network-effects: Network effects are a specific type of viral loop where each new user increases value for existing users. Not all viral loops create network effects, but all network effects are growth loops.

product-led-growth: PLG is a growth strategy built around viral and content loops — the product itself is the distribution channel. The PLG flywheel (free ⇒ value ⇒ upgrade ⇒ share) is a growth loop.

distribution: Every growth loop has a distribution mechanism. Balfour’s Product-Channel Fit connects loop design to Thiel’s distribution spectrum. The power law of distribution means one loop/channel will dominate.

retention-and-churn: Loops without retention are death spirals. Blue Apron proved that paid loops with 72% churn are worse than no loop at all. The best loops have retention built into their structure — users must stay active to generate the output that feeds the next cycle.

startup-metrics: AARRR is useful for measuring individual steps within a loop, but insufficient for understanding the system. Loops require measuring the cycle: output-to-input ratio, cycle time, and compounding rate.

moats: Growth loops can become moats. Content loops build SEO authority that compounds (Pinterest, HubSpot). Network viral loops create switching costs. Sales loops build organizational capability. But paid loops rarely create moats — they are easily replicated.

The Universal Growth Loop

Every company, at the meta level, operates one fundamental loop:

1. Product grows — users, revenue, traction increase
2. Growth attracts resources — higher quality talent and capital become available
3. Resources solve new problems — new features, products, markets
4. Solutions create more growth — cycle repeats

This loop runs in reverse too: stagnation ⇒ talent leaves ⇒ problems unsolved ⇒ further decline. HubSpot “played the loop forward” — asking what they needed now for 50% YoY growth in five years, which led to creating entirely new product lines.

Identifying Your Growth Loop

The Diagnostic

1. Map the output. What does your product produce that could attract new users? (Content? Invitations? Brand exposure? Revenue?)
2. Trace the reinvestment. Does that output actually flow back into acquisition? Or does it dead-end?
3. Identify the participants. Who is the value receiver, generator, and distributor? Are they the same person or different people?
4. Measure the cycle. How long does one loop iteration take? What’s the conversion rate at each step?
5. Test for compounding. Does each cycle produce more output than the last, or the same?

Common Mistakes

1. Thinking you have a loop when you have a funnel. If the output doesn’t feed back as input, it’s not a loop.
2. Relying on paid loops as primary growth. Paid loops inherently decline as targeting expands.
3. Optimizing loop steps in silos. The acquisition team optimizes top-of-funnel while the product team ignores viral mechanics.
4. Ignoring retention. A loop that acquires users who churn is a hamster wheel, not a flywheel.
5. Spreading across too many loops. The 80/20 rule: one or two loops do the heavy lifting. Focus there.
6. Building product without channel in mind. Product-channel fit means the product must be designed for the loop from day one.
7. Confusing “compound interest” with “instant results.” Loops take time to compound. The early cycles look unimpressive.

Andrew Chen’s Contributions

Chen co-authored the original Reforge growth loops essay and developed several complementary frameworks:

Viral loops as induction proofs: Chen’s core metaphor — viral loops are like mathematical induction. The difference between 80% dropoff and 50% dropoff “is huge spread over thousands of viral loops.” Small optimizations at each step compound enormously across generations of users.

Retention as the secret weapon: Looking at products that succeeded with viral loops, Chen found they “weren’t very aggressive about viral growth.” Their viral hooks felt natural because they had strong retention underneath. Products with sustainable viral growth have engagement loops first, acquisition loops second. Simple viral loops without retention “are about getting users quickly and not retaining them, driven by novelty and requiring a constant inflow of new people.”

Cold Start Theory (from The Cold Start Problem, 2021): Five stages every network product traverses: Cold Start ⇒ Tipping Point ⇒ Escape Velocity ⇒ Hitting the Ceiling ⇒ The Moat. Chen identifies three network effects that map to loop types:

1. Acquisition effect — lower CAC through viral growth (maps to viral loops)
2. Engagement effect — increased interactions as network grows (maps to engagement loops)
3. Economic effect — improved monetization as network grows (maps to monetization loops)

The critical insight connecting loops to the Cold Start Problem: you need an “atomic network” — a single stable, engaged network that can self-sustain — before any loop can start spinning. Figma needed one design team fully adopted before the collaboration loop could spread. Slack needed one active workspace before the team invitation loop could cross organizations. The atomic network is the ignition point for the loop.

See Also

• distribution — The channel dimension of loops; Thiel’s power law
• growth — Growth fundamentals and network effects engine
• startup-metrics — AARRR pirate metrics (what loops replace as a growth model)
• product-led-growth — PLG as a growth loop pattern
• network-effects — Network effects as a type of viral loop
• retention-and-churn — Why loops without retention fail
• moats — How loops become competitive moats
• unit-economics — CAC/LTV economics underlying paid and sales loops
• user-acquisition — Early acquisition before loops are spinning
• community-building — Community as a growth loop (Notion model)

Sources

• Growth Loops Are the New Funnels — Balfour, Winters, Kwok, Chen
• The Cold Start Problem — Andrew Chen

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