Growth marketing experts to follow in 2023 (bios, links & more)

Want to learn from the world's best growth marketing experts? Below is our list of the most influential and best growth marketing professionals to follow in order to stay informed about new growth marketing trends and tactics.

Each summary includes a bio, links to Twitter, LinkedIn, personal blog, published books, well-known articles, famous quotes, newsletters, podcasts and much more.

We have also included our complete Airtable database of growth marketing experts towards the bottom of this article.

Growth Marketing Experts

Sean Ellis

Sean is often referred to as "the father of the growth marketing movement" and one of the first growth marketing experts. He coined the term "growth hacking" and was the first marketer at Dropbox. He applied the principles of growth hacking in the early days at Dropbox, Eventbrite, LogMeIn, and Lookout (all worth billions today).

Along with Morgan Brown (below), Sean is a co-author of the acclaimed growth marketing book Hacking Growth. Sean is the founder of GrowthHackers.com and his website is at https://www.seanellis.me/. He blogs on Medium at https://medium.com/@SeanEllis and regularly posts on Twitter @SeanEllis. Sean recently started The Breakout Growth Podcast.

Morgan Brown

Morgan is currently the Product Lead at Facebook, he is a marketing veteran and co-founder of the popular growthhackers.com website (with Sean Ellis, above).

His book Hacking Growth (co-authored with Sean above) explains one of the hottest business methodologies in Silicon Valley and beyond. The methodology drove the rapid growth of start-ups like Uber, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Yelp, LinkedIn, Pinterest and more.

Morgan's website and blog are at http://morganbrown.co/, though he is more active on Twitter at @morganb.

Andrew Chen

One of the world's best known growth marketing experts, Andrew Chen famously led the "Rider Growth" team at Uber (https://get.uber.com/rider-growth/) at a time when Uber was spending around $1billion on its growth efforts annually. He now advises companies like Dropbox, AngelList, Front and Gusto in his role as a partner at the world-famous venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.

Andrew blogs at https://andrewchen.co/ where he has famously written over 650 essays on growth including the infamous piece Growth Hacker is the new VP of Marketing.

Brian Balfour

Brian Balfour is perhaps most famous for his role as Vice President of Growth at HubSpot. He now runs arguably one of the most well-respected growth training programs at https://www.reforge.com/, training many future growth marketing experts.

Brian's personal website at https://brianbalfour.com/essays contains all of his essays on customer acquisition and growth as well as his course on Building A Growth Machine.

One of Brian's most popular talks is from 2014 at 500 Startups: The Scientific Method: How to Design & Track Viral Growth Experiments.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0APJlxMjPw4

Casey Winters

Casey Winters was the first growth marketer at Grubhub and helped grow the company from 3 cities to over 1000. He went on to build the growth product team at Pinterest, growing active users from 40 million to over 200 million.

Casey is particularly well-known for his knowledge of scalable SEO strategies. He is currently the Chief Product Officer at Eventbrite. Casey blogs on his personal website at https://caseyaccidental.com/.

Mayur Gupta

Mayur Gupta is currently the CMO at Freshly and was previously the VP Growth for Spotify.

His superb blog can be found at http://inspiremartech.com/blog and his Twitter account is @inspiremartech. His keynote from Accelerate 2019 on Building an always-on marketing growth engine is below.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U37BHL8Rx_s

The complete list of growth marketing experts