Chief Growth Officer @Chesscom ♟️ | Ex-Head of Growth @Duolingo 🦉 @Grammarly 📝 | General Partner @sociallyfinancd 🚀 | Championship Owner @oaklandballers ⚾
San Francisco, CA
Joined June 2012
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i'd recognize those squares anywhere
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"Mr Musk, Tesla stock is down 6% today"
"Not now, I'm arguing with Chess dot com"
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Widgets are live! First ten people to show me a streak longer than my 85 days on your phone screen (Android or iOS!) and I’ll throw you a 💎 membership 😉
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Yes, we actually made the banner.
All 37,845 unique people who replied to this tweet earned their place in our banner and interactive site with one immortal message: Chess. 💚
Find your square: twitterbanner.chess.com
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Our Q3 Board Report is out!
Here are the standout moments and the numbers that shaped the last few months - plus a few surprises we didn’t see coming 👀
Full report: go.chess.com/Report_Q3_2025
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In a rare interview, the growth 🐐 behind @duolingo, @Grammarly, and @chesscom shares everything he's learned about growing consumer products.
In my conversation with Albert Cheng (@Albertc248), we discuss:
🔸 What good retention looks like for a consumer subscription app in 2025
🔸 How showing premium features to free users doubled Grammarly’s upgrades to paid plans
🔸 How to use the explore-exploit framework to find new growth opportunities
🔸 Why “reverse trials” work better than time-based trials
🔸 The three pillars of successful gamification: core loop, metagame, and profile
Listen now 👇
• YouTube: youtu.be/2BKmNmnEj9w
• Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3nf…
• Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Thank you to our wonderful sponsors for supporting the podcast:
🏆 @TrustVanta — Automate compliance. Simplify security: vanta.com/lenny
🏆 @Atlassian Jira Product Discovery — Confidence to build the right thing: atlassian.com/lenny
🏆 @MiroHQ — A collaborative visual platform where your best work comes to life: miro.com/lenny
🎧 🚀 Check out my new episode with @lennysan on growing consumer subscriptions!
I've been fortunate to lead Growth at three of the world's most beloved subscription products - @duolingo, @Grammarly, and @chesscom. In this conversation I share the stories and tactical examples on the journey to running 1,000+ experiments per year, improving our velocity while uncovering counterintuitive insights along the way. Let me know what you think!
And thanks Lenny for the thought-provoking questions!
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=2BKmNmnE…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/3nf…
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Upcoming podcast guests 🔥
- Stewart Butterfield (@stewart), co-founder Slack
- Melanie Perkins (@MelanieCanva), CEO Canva
- Marc Andreessen (@pmarca), co-founder a16z
- Elena Verna (@ElenaVerna), Head of Growth Lovable
- Robby Stein (@rmstein), Head of Google Search
- Dylan Field (@zoink), CEO Figma
- Chip Huyen (@chipro), author "AI Engineering"
- Nicole Forsgren (@nicolefv), DevEx expert
- Jason Droege (@jdroege), CEO Scale AI
- Molly Graham (@molly_g), "Give away your legos"
- Albert Cheng (@Albertc248), Head of Growth at Duo, Grammarly, Chess
- Jason Cohen (@asmartbear), founder WPEngine
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Product meeting this morning… look at our sexy widgets coming soon 😉 (couple weeks out!)
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Checkmate, QP ♟️
Last weekend, Quinten Post won the Chesstival Tournament in Las Vegas, donating all prize money to @ReadingPartners.
