Gonto - Auth0 Employee #6 shares developer marketing secrets
About this episode
Gonto (Martin Gontovnikas) was the 6th employee at Auth0 and helped them grow fast and sell for $6.5billion to Okta.
Now he is the founder of Hypergrowth Partners and helps DevTools grow fast.
We discuss:
- What Auth0 did to become so valuable so fast
- What the best founders do (Guillermo Rauch)
- Different is better than better
- People follow people not brands
- Why bleeding edge matters
Resources
- Why Technical SDRs are the Future of DevTools
https://playbooks.hypergrowthpartners.com/p/product-advocates-technical-sdrs - Gonto's website https://gon.to/
- Gonto's Twitter https://twitter.com/mgonto
- Hypergrowth Partners https://www.hypergrowthpartners.com/
- Code to Market https://codetomarket.fm/
- Guillermo Rauch https://x.com/rauchg
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