Growth Foundations for Leaders and Operators

Gaurav Vohra

Startup Advisor & Growth Leader

Growth solves all problems

It's never been easier to build a product.

The hard part is growing it.

Growth Foundations will teach you how to think critically about your company's growth.

You will learn how to change your company's growth trajectory, all the way from high-level strategy down to micro optimizations.

As anyone who has experienced growth knows: growth solves (nearly) all problems.

Who am I?

I'm Gaurav Vohra, startup advisor and growth leader.

I've built and advised close to 30 companies, including Superhuman, Notion, Clay, Replit, Wispr Flow, and many more. Collectively they are worth over $40BN.

I've seen all kinds of growth strategies and tactics — the good, the bad, and the ugly.

This course contains the most valuable things I've seen in a condensed and high-impact series.

Who is this for?

Founders, growth product managers, growth marketers, first growth or marketing hires, growth and marketing leaders, product managers, or even data scientists and designers driving growth.

Building your growth foundations might make you the most valuable person in your company.

What you’ll learn

Learn the growth strategies and tactics I've gathered from 30+ startups, collectively worth over $40BN.

  • You'll understand how to think about growth at a global level, as a system, as levers & loops, as product & marketing, and picking a focus

  • Identify your startup's roving bottleneck, the theory of optimization, and practically where you could apply focus in your startup today

  • Answer practical questions like how much demand is enough demand, when to test vs. just ship, how long to optimize funnels for

  • Understand what positioning is (and what it isn't), crafting your own messaging framework, and immediately leveling up how customers see you

  • Identify your ICP(s) and create clarity in your startup on who to focus on, versus who NOT to focus on

  • Understand when to offer your product for free (freemium or free trial), some blend, or to exclusively charge money — and how to gauge WTP

  • What is and what isn't the aha moment, how to picture a broader user journey, and how to build an amazing human- or product-first onboarding

  • Understand the deep connections between core product value, moats, user retention, and onboarding

  • Where do your customers come from, which channels you should focus on, and balancing scalable channels vs. one-off "hits"

  • Concrete tactics that you can apply to your startup today around word-of-mouth and virality, search/GEO, and more.

  • Solve your most important growth blocker: talent. Bringing in the right roles, hiring for excellence, and leading an A+ team.

  • Communicate with executive presence, ship with velocity and inspire your entire organization.

Workshop agenda

  • 8:15am PT · Welcome & Session 1: Growth Fundamentals

    8:15 get online, get connected & introductions. 8:30 Session 1: Startup = growth, growth systems: levers & loops, growth product & marketing, the roving bottleneck, theory of optimization

  • 9:30am PT · Session 2: Positioning & Biz Model

    Positioning, messaging, ICP, business model, value capture

  • 10:30am PT · Q&A, AMA & break

    15–20 minutes of Q&A and AMA, then a 10–15 minute break

  • 11:00am PT · Session 3: Onboarding

    Setup/aha/habit moments, manual onboarding, productizing onboarding

  • 12:00pm PT · Break (Lunch or Dinner)

    30-minute break for lunch or dinner, depending on your time zone

  • 12:30pm PT · Session 4: Acquisition

    Acquisition, HDYHAU, scalable vs. non-scalable, waitlists, WOM / referrals, SEO/GEO

  • 1:30pm PT · Session 5: Hiring & Teams

    MOCs, how to hire growth, agencies/contractors vs. FTEs, growth team philosophy

  • 2:30pm PT · Q&A, AMA & break

    15–20 minutes of Q&A and AMA, then a 10–15 minute break

  • 3:00pm PT · Session 6: Leadership & Comms

    Communication, executive presence & altitude, cross-organization influence, shipping velocity

  • 4:00pm PT · Final Q&A and AMA

    15 minutes of open Q&A and AMA to close the day

Learn directly from Gaurav

Gaurav Vohra

Gaurav Vohra

Built Superhuman inception to exit, Advisor @ Wispr Flow, Clay, Replit & 25+

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Who this workshop is for

  • Startup founders & CEOs who want to improve their ability to make impactful growth decisions. Post-PMF and accelerating.

  • Talented ICs such as Founding Growth, Growth PMs, Growth Marketers, Growth Engineers, Designers, and Data Scientists who want sharper skills

  • Senior Growth Leaders across Growth, Marketing, and Product. Whether it's your first time as Head of Growth or you're well seasoned.

Prerequisites

  • Tech experience

    We will use technical terms and assume you understand. This is not for you if you are not already in tech and growing professionally.

  • No multitasking

    We will move extremely fast. This workshop will not work for you if you are multitasking.

What's included

Gaurav Vohra

Live sessions

Learn directly from Gaurav Vohra in a real-time, interactive format.

Lifetime access

Go back to course content and recordings whenever you need to.

Community of peers

Stay accountable and share insights with like-minded professionals.

Certificate of completion

Share your new skills with your employer or on LinkedIn.

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Testimonials

  • Gaurav drives massive impact fast. Pricing, growth loops, hiring, analytics: he touched everything and taught us how to make it better. Drove significant revenue, landed major roles, stood up critical infra. One of the best decisions we made as a company.

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    Tanay Kothari

    Founder & CEO, Wispr Flow
  • Gaurav played a huge role in standing up Clay's Growth Eng function. Starting from 0: what we should track, defining activation at Clay, what experiments / cadence / structure will drive success. He helped our team make strides on both activation and conversion.

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    Varun Anand

    Cofounder, Clay
  • Gaurav is A+. He thinks about growth beyond just marketing and also as product/PMF, referrals, systems, and hiring. If you want to grow faster (you probably do) work with Gaurav.

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    Max Marchione

    Founder & CEO, Superpower
  • Gaurav is an incredible advisor. Clear thinker who can break down the hardest problems. I trust him immensely, and think we'll work together for decades to come.

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    Sigil Wen

    Founder, Extraordinary

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