01Growth & Product

Morgan
Brown

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

02About

Two decades at the seam of product and growth.

Morgan has spent twenty years operating at the intersection of product and growth — most recently leading growth and product at Opendoor, and before that at Shopify, at Meta on Instagram growth, and earlier at GrowthHackers, Qualaroo, and TrueVault.

Every business leader, product owner or entrepreneur has the same challenge: unlocking growth. He writes and speaks 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 at the sale. It comes back around.

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

04The Book

Hacking Growth

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

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
    Growth & Product
    2020 — now*
  2. Shopify
    Director of Product, Growth
    2019 — 20*
  3. Meta / Instagram
    Product Management, Growth
    2017 — 19*
  4. GrowthHackers
    Founding COO
    2014 — 17*
  5. Qualaroo
    COO
    2013 — 14*
  6. TrueVault
    Head of Growth
    2014*

* years are draft — to be verified

06Now

What I’m thinking about.

fig. 04 — recent entries, still spreading
  1. June 2026

    AI-native growth loops

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

  2. May 2026

    The death of the funnel

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

  3. 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.