Product-Led Growth
Teardowns and playbooks on letting the product drive acquisition, conversion, and expansion.
Product-led growth (PLG) makes your product the primary driver of acquisition, conversion, and expansion, instead of a sales team. In practice that means freemium tiers, self-serve onboarding, in-product virality, and product qualified leads (PQLs) that sales only touches once the product has already done the convincing. For operators trying to lower CAC and shorten time-to-value, PLG isn't a philosophy. It's a set of concrete bets with measurable payoffs.
This collection covers how specific companies actually built and sustained PLG motions: what their self-serve funnels looked like, how they defined and scored PQLs, where freemium converted and where it leaked, and what broke when they layered an enterprise sales motion on top. Use these teardowns and playbooks as a diagnostic against your own funnel, not as abstract inspiration.
All product-led growth posts
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№079AcquisitionHow Lovable Hit $100M ARR in 8 Months (Then $500M in 19)
Launch to a $500M run rate in 19 months with 146 people. The engines behind it, and the cracks under it.
RevenueFreemium
Free forever, pay to unlock more
№102ReferralHow ElevenLabs Hit $330M ARR: The Three-Platform Flywheel That Conquered Enterprise AI
The ElevenLabs GTM Playbook. How a PLG Voice Platform Conquered 41% of Fortune 500 Companies.
№084AcquisitionHow Cursor AI Hacked Growth and Re-Wrote Growth Playbook for Dev-Tools!
From Hack-Weekend Project to $200M ARR.
№036RevenueCanva's Product Led Growth - All You Need to Know
The Canva's Playbook on How to Get Your Product to Sell Itself!
№033ReferralSlack's Product Led Growth - All You Need to Know
The Slack Playbook on How to Get Your Product to Sell Itself!
№097AcquisitionGrowth Funnels vs. Growth Loops
Funnels leak. Loops compound. A practical guide to designing growth that feeds itself.
ActivationFeature Adoption Rate
Active users who actually use a feature
ActivationProduct Qualified Lead (PQL)
Free user already hooked on value
№039RevenueGrammarly's Product-Led Growth: Deconstructing Their Tactics & How You Can Replicate Them
The Ultimate Guide to Replicating Grammarly's PLG Success
№041ActivationSo, You're Thinking About Product-Led Growth (PLG), Huh?
№069AcquisitionHow PLG Outperforms Traditional Sales Strategies in B2B?
Product-Led Growth is transforming B2B growth strategies, reducing acquisition costs, and empowering users to drive organic expansion.
№034ActivationNetflix's Product-Led Growth - All You Need to Know
The Netflix Playbook on How to Get Your Product to Sell Itself!
№017AcquisitionExploring the Rise of Product-Led Growth: A Brief History and Methodology
№040AcquisitionThe PLG Framework: Your hands-on Guide to Product-Led Growth
This guide will equip you with the tools, tactics, and insights you need to harness the power of your product to drive sustainable growth.
№028Retention