How to build your first Growth Team

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The Growth Renaissance

How to build your first Growth Team

Hosted by Leah Tharin

395 students

What you'll learn

Build a growth team that delivers results

Learn how to structure cross-functional teams across product, marketing, and engineering to drive sustainable growth.

Best practices for Growth teams in 2025

Learn what defines great Growth teams and how they identify the right opportunities to bet on.

How to measure performance in Growth

Learn how to focus on the right metrics to drive measurable results.

Why this topic matters

Growth teams are responsible for connecting users to value as cost-efficiently as possible, and their importance is only growing in 2025. They sit at the intersection of product, marketing, and sales, touching critical areas like pricing, packaging, and onboarding flows.

I have structured many Growth teams as a CPO and Advisor and will give you a condensed overview of the topic.

You'll learn from

Leah Tharin

CPO PLG | Ex - Core product Lead Smallpdf | Board Member (EQT) | Notion Capital

Leah Tharin is a leading Product-led Growth Voice for scaling B2B companies and former CPGO of GotPhoto.

She led products like Jua.ai and the core product at Smallpdf with over 50 million monthly active users.

She is a program creator, lecturer, executive coach and a portfolio growth advisor to VC funds like Notion Capital and is a board member of GotPhoto, an EQT investment.

Smallpdf, Notion Capital, Paddle