57 Startup Growth Experts

Andrew Chen – The godfather of growth blogging. Spend some time in his archives. Great stuff!
Adam Nash – Former LinkedIn exec and really smart dude. Every post is worth reading.
Sean Ellis – The dude who coined the term “Growth Hacker.”
Conrad Wadowski & Mattan Griffel – Growth consultants out of NYC. Young, but not dumb!
Brian Balfour – Entreprenuer, Angel Investor, Growth Specialist.
Dan Martell – Founder of Clarity, Flowtown and lecturer on growth.
Tommy Griffith – If you’re just getting your feet wet with SEO, start with Tommy.
Matt Cutts – Google’s inside man on all things SEO.
Chamath Palihapitiya – Former growth lead at Facebook.
Andy Johns – Former growth focused PM at Facebook, Twitter, Quora, former Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Greylock, now at Wealthfront. Just don’t call him a “Growth Hacker.”
Avinash Kaushik – The godfather of web analytics.
Neil Patel – The guy behind the Kiss Analytics blog.
Noah Kagan – Chief Sumo. Formerly at Facebook and Mint. Founder of multiple start-ups.
Seth Godin – Yes, that Seth Godin.
Nabeel Hyatt – Former Zynga exec turned VC.
James Currier – My former boss and one of the best brains on growth IMO. Founder of Tickle, Wonderhill, Ironpearl.
Tomasz Tunguz – A venture capitalist who gets startup marketing.
Jeremy Liew – He’s been working in the web game probably longer than you’ve been alive. He’s been writing about growth related topics on the Lightspeed blog since 2006. Super smart guy.
Josh Elman – The guy who helped grow LinkedIn, Facebook AND Twitter… The holy moly trinity of fast growth social networks!
Paul Graham – The man, the myth, the legend. Go back and read every one of his posts. Posts from 10 years ago are still relevant today!
Mike Greenfield – Seasoned Facebook Platform startup founder. Growth Hacker-In-Residence at 500 Startups.
Jason Cohen – Founder of WP Engine who shares his insights on startup marketing, product and everything inbetween.
Rand Fishkin – My man Rand… Founder of Moz.com and the oracle of search optimization.
Nir Eyal – Nir writes some pretty great stuff around the psychologies of growth and user engagement. He just wrote a book called ‘Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.‘ Check it out.
Nathan Barry – Successful independent Designer/ Developer/ Marketer hybrid.
Mike DeVerna – Growth at Hired.com, BranchOut, Pagefad.
Shawn Collins – Learn everything you need to know about affiliate marketing from Shawn.
500 Startups – A great resource for all things start-ups.
Ryan Holiday – Best selling author has some great growth articles on Medium.
Lance and Joanna – Great tips on hacking copywriting.
Sangeet Paul Choudary – A great mind and excellent writer on Platform Thinking.
Tim Ferriss – Learn from the master on how to hack your startup, your mind, your body and everything else in your life.
Brad Feld – TechStars co-founder, author, marathon runner. Great posts on startups.
Luke Wrobeloski – A world class data-driven designer.
Alexis Ohanian – Founder of Reddit talks about their growth story.
Danielle Morrill – CEO & Cofounder of Mattermark. Writer of things, often growth related.
Vladimir Prelovac – An entrepreneur who often writes insightful SEO tips.
Elliot Shmuckler – VP Product and Growth at Wealthfront. Previously led Growth (20M to 200M+) and consumer products at LinkedIn.
Dan McKinley – Big data/ growth engineer at Etsy.
Ian Lurie – Founder of respected Seattle marketing agency Portent.
Will Critchlow – Cofounder of Distilled, the leading organic and paid search agency.
David Naylor – SEO expert.
Steve Blank – Serial entrepreneur and author of multiple startup guide books.
Dharmesh Shah – Cofounder of Hubspot… Has grown it into a billion dollar business.
Mark Suster – VC who writes great advice for startups.
Chris Dixon – Super tall dude. Also very smart.
Fred Wilson – The bad guy from that Twitter book. Excellent blog.
Aaron Ginn – Head of Growth at StumbleUpon, Formerly Growth Hacker for the Romney for President campaign.
Stephan Miller – Lots of good advice on SEO and social media marketing.
Kanyi Maqubela – A man born in a township outside of Johannesburg, South Africa, went to Stanford, has worked for Obama, a few startups, now at Collaborative Fund.
Evan Solomon – Engineer and growth thinker. Previously at Automattic and Justin.tv. Now at Medium.com.
Ryan Carson – CEO and Founder of Treehouse, an online technology school that teaches you how to code, start a business, etc.
Blake Masters – Writing a book on Peter Thiel’s brain (http://zerotoonebook.com/)
Jakub Linowski – UI Design Tips for conversion.