Dave Grow

Dave Grow

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area
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About

After starting my career at Bain, I was given the opportunity to join a small basement…

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  • Best of #LucidLearning in 2018
    Dec 22, 2018

    Best of #LucidLearning in 2018

    Just over a year ago, I wrote my first real LinkedIn post and tagged it with #LucidLearning. Going into it, I had no…

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Experience

  • Lucid Graphic

    Lucid

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

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    Greater New York City Area

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

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    Dallas/Fort Worth Area

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

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    Greater Salt Lake City Area

Education

  • Brigham Young University Graphic

    Brigham Young University

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    Activities and Societies: Dean’s List, VP of Finance Society, Investments teaching assistant

    • Graduated summa cum laude
    • Gordon B. Hinckley Presidential Scholar

Volunteer Experience

  • Organizing Committee

    Utah Tech Week

    - less than a year

    Utah’s inaugural Tech Week developed with the purpose of strengthening the startup ecosystem and recruiting talent. Over 1,300 people attended from 21 different states and 3 countries.

    http://siliconslopes.com/blog/2014/10/14/utah-tech-week-recap/

  • Reunion Commitee Co-Chair

    Henry J. Grow Family Organization

    - less than a year

    Large-scale convention developed with the purpose of celebrating the life and legacy of Henry J. Grow, early Utah pioneer and architect of the Salt Lake Tabernacle. One of the largest 'family reunions' ever held worldwide with 3,000+ attendees.

    http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865560068/Three-thousand-people-attend-Henry-Grow-reunion.html

  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Graphic

    Missionary

    The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

    - 2 years

    Greece & Cyprus

Publications

  • Lessons of Building a New Category: Visual Collaboration

    Category First

    Topics include:
    * The state of the visual collaboration market before Lucid.
    * Launching new products after establishing category leadership.
    * Proving ease of use to customers.
    * Stepping into the role of CEO after helping the company reach its current success.
    * Taking over a growing company during an uncertain economy.
    * Why it's so important to have alignment with your executive team.

    See publication

  • Early Stage Growth Tactics

    Running Stuff

    In this conversation, Dave shares his learnings and insights from Lucid’s earliest days, including the principles around implementing their successful freemium, self-serve motion, their early growth tactics around driving new users to their website, and how they eventually layered on a traditional sales motion to drive accelerated growth.

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  • Giving Away Your Legos

    Built by Humans

    President and COO Dave Grow joins Scott Britton and Andrei Newman on the Built by Humans Podcast to discuss his approach to strategy, hyper-growth, self-awareness, and patience.

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  • Unpacking the New Customer Journey & How to Build a Growth Team

    OpenView BUILD

    Podcast interview on the self-service to Enterprise model, including discussion on why self-service can be powerful and when to know if it's the right model; the various roles that sales, customer success and others play in this journey; and the type of company culture required for a product-led growth company.

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  • Sales & Marketing Spend: How Lucidchart Scaled to 10M Users with Zero Burn

    OpenView Labs

    Podcast interview with a few key themes:

    * Starting out: keep it simple and focused
    * Optimizing: build on what's working
    * Adapting: experiment to find your next win
    * Expanding: stay true to your approach

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  • From Freemium to Enterprise: Growing to over 10 million users

    SaaS Revolution

    Podcast interview on a number of topics:

    * What are the different GTM strategies to get to scale and what has worked for Lucidchart?
    * Should SaaS companies pursue a freemium model?
    * How Lucidchart moved upmarket and how it overcame certain challenges
    * How to find the intersection between what you love and what brings value to your company

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Honors & Awards

  • CXO of the Year

    Utah Business Magazine

    https://utahbusiness.com/dave-grow-cxo-of-the-year/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXDlisXXAc

  • Forty Under 40

    Utah Business Magazine

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-grow-lucid-software-named-140000085.html

  • Peak 100

    Utah Venture Entrepreneur Forum / Peak Ventures

    http://uvef.com/recognition/peak-100/peak-100-award-winners/
    http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/01/prweb13176670.htm

    The Peak 100 award, sponsored by Peak Ventures, was created by UVEF to identify and recognize entrepreneurs with Utah ties that are most likely to favorably impact the community. Made list in both 2015 and 2016.

  • Marketer of the Year

    American Marketing Association, Utah Chapter

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dave-grow-lucid-software-named-150000094.html

  • Sales & Marketer of the Year

    Utah Business Magazine

    http://finance.yahoo.com/news/lucid-software-marketing-team-named-110000406.html

    The Lucidchart marketing team was the first team to ever win this award, previously only awarded to individuals.

Test Scores

  • GMAT

    Score: 780

Languages

  • Greek

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