Andy Young

About

Achievements

The Selective Tweets app I created for Facebook has been used by over 1.3 million people - I wrote about it here: http://bit.ly/selective-tweets-story

I founded membership management platform GroupSpaces, and grew it to help thousands of group leaders manage 5 million memberships, raising $2.5M investment along the way.

I was Facebook's first international hire for Growth Marketing, where I led Growth Marketing for Workplace by Facebook.

I've had in-person 1:1 mentoring/advice sessions with over 300 startups and counting, and love every one I do.

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Growth Hacking Growth Marketing Product Marketing Email Marketing Marketing and Growth Strategy Growth Product Development Product Management Product Product Strategy Analytics Data Analysis Data Metrics Performance Metrics Analysis / Optimization Experimentation User Validation & Testing Product-Market Fit Objectives and Key Results (OKRs) Goal Setting User Testing Startups Lean Startups Startup Founder Early-Stage Startups Software Architecture AWS UI/UX Design Usability

Locations

London

Experience

Entrepreneur First

VP Growth & Marketing 2020 - 2021 (about 1 year)

Kindred

Advisor 2019 - 2020 (about 1 year)

Seedcamp

Mentor

Various

Startup Mentor 2011 - Present (almost 14 years)

Regular mentor of early-stage startups at accelerators including Seedcamp, TechStars, EF, Ignite100 and Oxygen. Topics include product, metrics, investment, strategy, payments.

Meta

Growth Marketing 2017 - 2019 (over 1 year)

First international hire for Growth Marketing at Facebook. Led Growth Marketing for Workplace by Facebook, getting more users and driving engagement by working at the intersection... more

Freelance and advisory

Growth, product, analytics & tech 2015 - 2017 (over 2 years)

Helping fun teams with big ambitions; from core strategy and training teams to getting my hands dirty with growth, product, analytics and code.

Projects include:
-... more

Quantcast

Growth Consultant, Product & Marketing 2016 (8 months)

Coaching and execution to drive acquisition and growth for Quantcast Measure. Provided interim support in lieu of Head of Product and Head of Marketing while assisting recruiting... more

500 Global

Entrepreneur in Residence, London 2015 - 2016 (over 1 year)

Working hands-on with companies in 500's Distro Dojo programs to supercharge their growth.

- London batches 1-3
- Kuala Lumpur batch 2
- Mountain View batch 17
-... more

Grabble

Advisor 2015 - 2017 (about 2 years)

Grabble is a multi award winning fashion app, revolutionising how we discover and shop for fashion on our phones. Dubbed the "Tinder for fashion", it thus perfectly combines... more

Stripe

UK Country Lead 2013 - 2015 (almost 2 years)

GroupSpaces

Founder, CPTO, later CEO 2007 - 2013 (about 6 years)

Founded membership management platform GroupSpaces, and grew it to help thousands of group leaders manage 5 million memberships, raising $2.5M investment along the way.

In... more

Selective Tweets app for Facebook

Founder

The most popular 3rd-party app to cross-post between Twitter and Facebook, with over 1M users and 1.5M status updates per month. #fb

Oxford Entrepreneurs

Employee 2006 - 2009 (about 3 years)

Founder

GroupSpaces, Selective Tweets app for Facebook

Employee

Stripe, 500 Global, Oxford Entrepreneurs, Various, Grabble, Freelance and advisory, Quantcast, Meta, Entrepreneur First

Advisor

Kindred

Mentor

Seedcamp

Education

Q&A

What's the most useful business-related book you've ever read?

Multipliers by Liz Wiseman - great read on "how the best leaders make everyone smarter".
I wrote up a summary here:
https://insomanic.me.uk/leadership-lessons-from-multipliers-by-liz-wiseman-book-summary-b3de98e3e2d2

What's your favorite non-business book?

Terry Pratchett's Discworld series

What's the best way for people to get in touch with you?

Email me [email protected] or tweet @Andy Young

Andy Young

VP Growth & Marketing @Entrepreneur First, Advisor @Kindred. Previously @facebook @500 Global @Stripe, founder @GroupSpaces