01Growth & Product

Morgan
Brown

Growth & product executive. Co-author of Hacking Growth. Everything I know about product growth, to inspire and drive your business.

02About

Two decades at the seam of product and growth.

I’ve spent twenty years operating at the intersection of product and growth. Today, I’m the chief growth officer at Opendoor, and before that a product and growth leader at Instagram, Dropbox, Shopify, and Meta.

Every business leader, product owner or entrepreneur has the same challenge: unlocking growth. I write and speak about how it actually compounds; not hacks, not spikes — systems, loops, and the discipline to let them run.

fig. 01 — tempo breaks the plateau

03The Method

One loop, run at high tempo.

The method fits in one sentence. A cross-functional team picks a loop — acquire, activate, retain, refer — and runs it fast: test, measure, keep what compounds. The thread doesn’t end when the idea ships. It comes back around.

fig. 02 — the growth hacking cycle
ANALYZE IDEATE PRIORITIZE TEST insight gathering idea generation ice scoring run experiments the growth loop

04The Book

Hacking Growth

How Today’s Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
With Sean Ellis · Crown Business, 2017 · Get the book

1.13 in

drawn to trim — 6.3 × 9.56 × 1.13 in

SIGNUP AHA shorten this
fig. 03 — time to value, measured

“A terrific book [that] belongs up there with Geoffrey Moore, Eric Ries and Steve Blank’s books as a fundamental part of the canon of StartUpLand.”

Jeff Bussgang · HBS lecturer & GP, Flybridge

05The Work

Operating history.

  1. Opendoor
    Chief Growth Officer
    Oct 2025 — present
  2. Dropbox
    VP Product & Growth, AI Products
    Jul 2024 — Oct 2025
  3. Instagram
    Sr. Director of Product
    Sep 2022 — Jun 2024
  4. Shopify
    VP of Growth
    Aug 2020 — Sep 2022
  5. Facebook
    Product Manager
    Jul 2017 — Jul 2020

06Now

What I’m thinking about.

fig. 04 — recent entries, latest first
  1. July 2026

    Jacket Copy, Revised

    Hacking Growth at nine years, argued out with the machine — a session on the record, with a toggle between the edit and the record.

  2. June 2026

    AI-native growth loops

    What does a growth model look like when the product can improve itself between sessions?

  3. May 2026

    The death of the funnel

    Funnels assume a line of strangers. Loops assume relationships that compound.

  4. April 2026

    Agents as the new channel

    When software shops for software, distribution gets rewritten. Who is the customer then?

All writing →

07Letters

Growth Strategies, straight to your inbox.