When startups are ready to scale, one challenge that often

crops up is finding the right person to lead the growth charge.

Stage right: the growth hacker. A good growth hacker has a burning desire to connect a target market with a must-have solution,
and everything they do is measured by their potential impact
on scalable growth. Below is a chart of modern-day growth
hackers and the companies theyve helped to build. We show
how many of these growth hackers are interconnected, and
how there are natural groupings of growth hackers around certain company genres (Microsoft and Linkedin, for instance).
(paragraph adapted from a post by Sean Ellis)
about this chart
work chronology

number of connections through or

terminating at a particular company

last known place

of employment

circle size is determined by number of connections

flowing through or terminating at a particular company

The following chart demonstrates how 20 modern-day growth

hackers are related via their respective work histories.

Othman Laraki
silicon graphics

One Jackson

skype

Yee Lee
3

green patch

blip.me

david king
birthday alarm

michael birch
2

spark capital

Akash Garg
Hi5
Greylock partners

Nabeel Hyatt
4
3

jon tien

Robert Cezar Matei

Intel

Noah Kagan
6

Tipjoy

mint.com

AppsumO

Ivan Kirigin
friend.ly

dropbox

Ed Baker

Joe Greenstein
coremetrics

Flixster /
RottenTomatoes

Joe Greenstein
Ventures

Andrew Johns
paypaL

Circle of moms

teamrankings

Hot or not

Megatasty

angellist

Xoopit

yahoo

Foodily, Inc.

Mike Greenfield
4

josh elman
real networks

Alex Schultz

zazzle
2

Elliot Shmukler

Dave Zohrob

Aatif Awan

Jonathan Katzman

People. Not pageviews.

source:
http://andrewchen.co/2012/05/11/how-do-i-learn-to-be-a-growth-hacker-work-for-one-of-the-guys/
picture credits:
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/othman-laraki
https://twitter.com/yeeguy
https://twitter.com/deekay
http://www.guardian.co.uk/activate/speaker-biography-michael-birch
http://www.crunchbase.com/person/akash-garg
http://www.sparkcapital.com/team/nabeel-hyatt/
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/jon-tien/1/a19/477
https://www.linkedin.com/in/robertmatei
http://www.linkedin.com/in/noahkagan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/kirigin

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ed-baker/0/8b/20
http://techfellows.com/general-management/2011/techfellow...
http://www.linkedin.com/in/andrewjohns
https://www.linkedin.com/in/mgreenfield
http://greylock.com/teams/42-Josh-Elman
http://www.linkedin.com/in/alexorig
http://www.linkedin.com/in/eshmu
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dzohrob
https://www.linkedin.com/in/aatifawan
https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonathankatzman