William Griggs

Experience

VirtualRealityRental.co

Founder 2016 - Present (over 10 years)

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Recent Customers Include: GE, Mini Cooper, Optum, CapitalOne, Cadillac, Dropbox, Cognizant,... more

Startup Slingshot

Founder, Growth Product Management & Customer Acquisition Consultant

I help startups craft and implement their product and customer acquisition strategies.

Spredfast

Customer Acquisition

Spredfast is a social marketing platform backed by InterWest Partners, OpenView Ventures, and Austin Ventures.

Mass Relevance

Customer Acquisition

Mass Relevance is a social acceleration platform backed by FLOODGATE, Battery Ventures, and Austin Ventures. It was acquired by Spredfast.

Founder

Startup Slingshot, VirtualRealityRental.co

Employee

Mass Relevance, Spredfast

Education

About

Achievements

Drove quantifiable results for the following venture-backed startups:
• CBANC [angel.co/cbanc-network]
• Spredfast [angel.co/spredfast]
• Mass Relevance [angel.co/mass-relevance]
• Toptal [angel.co/toptal]
• Uloop [angel.co/uloop]
• Populr [angel.co/populr-me]
• iQuantifi [angel.co/iquantifi]
• Wannado [angel.co/wannado-1]
• MyCollegeRoadTrip [angel.co/mycollegeroadtrip-com]

Wrote about product strategy and marketing for a handful of blogs around the internet including:
• ReadWrite
• VentureBeat
• Mashable
• Under30CEO
• The Next Web
• OnStartups

Launched a successful startup-focused podcast
• Interviewed several living legends including Brad Feld, Steve Blank, and Alexander Osterwalder

Describe the most impressive thing you've done.

Skills

Product Management Customer Acquisition Growth Hacking Customer Development Lean Startups Conversion Optimization

Locations

Austin Nashville Silicon Valley London Paris Berlin San Francisco

William Griggs

Founder @startup-slingshot Past: Head of Growth @cbanc-network • Customer Acquisiton @massrelevance (Acq) & @spredfast • Writer @mashable @venturebeat