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After starting my career at Bain, I was given the opportunity to join a small basement…
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Lucid Software is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive in the Bay Area to join our incredible team. This is a chance to drive strategic growth…
Lucid Software is hiring an Enterprise Account Executive in the Bay Area to join our incredible team. This is a chance to drive strategic growth…
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News big enough for me to return to posting! I’ve shared startup updates before, but this one hits differently. Our oldest created a game called…
News big enough for me to return to posting! I’ve shared startup updates before, but this one hits differently. Our oldest created a game called…
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Great session with Ethan Choi of Khosla Ventures at our BYU class last night. This guy has an incredible story and his passion, vulnerability and…
Great session with Ethan Choi of Khosla Ventures at our BYU class last night. This guy has an incredible story and his passion, vulnerability and…
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Experience
Education
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Brigham Young University
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Activities and Societies: Dean’s List, VP of Finance Society, Investments teaching assistant
• Graduated summa cum laude
• Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Scholar
Volunteer Experience
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Organizing Committee
Utah Tech Week
- less than a year
Utah’s inaugural Tech Week developed with the purpose of strengthening the startup ecosystem and recruiting talent. Over 1,300 people attended from 21 different states and 3 countries.
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Reunion Commitee Co-Chair
Henry J. Grow Family Organization
- less than a year
Large-scale convention developed with the purpose of celebrating the life and legacy of Henry J. Grow, early Utah pioneer and architect of the Salt Lake Tabernacle. One of the largest 'family reunions' ever held worldwide with 3,000 attendees.
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560068/Three-thousand-people-attend-Henry-Grow-reunion.html
Publications
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Lessons of Building a New Category: Visual Collaboration
Category First
Topics include:
* The state of the visual collaboration market before Lucid.
* Launching new products after establishing category leadership.
* Proving ease of use to customers.
* Stepping into the role of CEO after helping the company reach its current success.
* Taking over a growing company during an uncertain economy.
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Early Stage Growth Tactics
Running Stuff
In this conversation, Dave shares his learnings and insights from Lucid’s earliest days, including the principles around implementing their successful freemium, self-serve motion, their early growth tactics around driving new users to their website, and how they eventually layered on a traditional sales motion to drive accelerated growth.
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Giving Away Your Legos
Built by Humans
President and COO Dave Grow joins Scott Britton and Andrei Newman on the Built by Humans Podcast to discuss his approach to strategy, hyper-growth, self-awareness, and patience.
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Unpacking the New Customer Journey & How to Build a Growth Team
OpenView BUILD
Podcast interview on the self-service to Enterprise model, including discussion on why self-service can be powerful and when to know if it's the right model; the various roles that sales, customer success and others play in this journey; and the type of company culture required for a product-led growth company.
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Sales & Marketing Spend: How Lucidchart Scaled to 10M Users with Zero Burn
OpenView Labs
Podcast interview with a few key themes:
* Starting out: keep it simple and focused
* Optimizing: build on what's working
* Adapting: experiment to find your next win
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From Freemium to Enterprise: Growing to over 10 million users
SaaS Revolution
Podcast interview on a number of topics:
* What are the different GTM strategies to get to scale and what has worked for Lucidchart?
* Should SaaS companies pursue a freemium model?
* How Lucidchart moved upmarket and how it overcame certain challenges
* How to find the intersection between what you love and what brings value to your company
Honors & Awards
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CXO of the Year
Utah Business Magazine
https://utahbusiness.com/dave-grow-cxo-of-the-year/
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Forty Under 40
Utah Business Magazine
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-grow-lucid-software-named-140000085.html
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Peak 100
Utah Venture Entrepreneur Forum / Peak Ventures
http://uvef.com/recognition/peak-100/peak-100-award-winners/
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/01/prweb13176670.htm
The Peak 100 award, sponsored by Peak Ventures, was created by UVEF to identify and recognize entrepreneurs with Utah ties that are most likely to favorably impact the community. Made list in both 2015 and 2016. -
Marketer of the Year
American Marketing Association, Utah Chapter
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dave-grow-lucid-software-named-150000094.html
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Sales & Marketer of the Year
Utah Business Magazine
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lucid-software-marketing-team-named-110000406.html
The Lucidchart marketing team was the first team to ever win this award, previously only awarded to individuals.
Test Scores
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GMAT
Score: 780
Languages
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Greek
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