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The growth playbook built from 400 founder conversations

What 400 top founders taught me about growth. How 40 agencies executed it. Real tactics, real numbers, no fluff.

How They Grew Sam Kamani
HOW
THEY
GREW
What 400 Top Founders Taught Me About Growth
(And How 40 Agencies Executed It)
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Sam Kamani
400+Founder interviews
40+Agency case studies
7+Years of research
1Definitive playbook
Why this book exists

You won't find this on ChatGPT or Google

Because it was never published. Every tactic in this book came from a private conversation, a real campaign, a war-room debrief that stayed off the record. It exists here, and nowhere else.

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Never indexed

The 40+ agencies in this book shared the strategies behind their biggest client wins. These are not blog posts. They are not case studies they put on their website. They shared them here, for the first time, because they trust the community Sam has built.

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Built for Web3, blockchain and AI

Generic growth advice does not apply to these industries. The rules are different. The buyers are different. The channels are different. Every case study in this book comes from someone who has actually built and scaled in these spaces, not someone writing about them from the outside.

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Distribution is the new moat

In the age of AI, anyone can vibe code a product over a weekend. Coding is no longer the moat. The ability to build a lasting brand, earn real engagement, and own an audience is where the real value has shifted. That is what this book is about.

Inside the book

The tactics that actually moved the needle

After 400+ interviews, the patterns are clear. This book distils them into a framework anyone can execute, from early traction to hypergrowth.

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Acquisition

How the best founders found their first 1,000 customers and scaled to millions without burning budget.

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Retention & Loops

The virality and retention mechanics hiding inside the fastest-growing products of the last decade.

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Revenue Expansion

Pricing moves, upsell sequences, and partnership plays that multiplied ARR without adding headcount.

Speed & Execution

How agencies turn founder ideas into scalable systems. Playbooks they have never shared publicly.

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Market Expansion

The geo and vertical expansion plays that unlocked new markets without rebuilding the product.

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Community & Trust

How the smartest brands built flywheels out of trust and turned their audience into distribution.

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About the author

Sam Kamani

Serial entrepreneur, Web3 advisor, and host of Web3 with Sam Kamani. One of the world's most prolific founder interview podcasts with 400+ episodes.

Two successful exits. A TEDx talk. Author of The 30 Day Startup. Sam has spent years in the room with the founders building the next wave of tech. He is finally writing it all down.

400+
Founder podcast episodes
2
Successful exits
1
TEDx talk
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What tactic moved the needle for your company or a client's? The best stories get featured in How They Grew. Sam reviews every submission personally.

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02  The challenge
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03  The tactic
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04  The results
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05  The insight
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