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How to Build a $100M Growth Engine: Lessons from Wispr Flow & Superhuman | Matt Swulinski

2026-08-15 · 11 company · 21 thematic
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harry stebbings

Founder of 20VC (The Twenty Minute VC), one of the most popular venture-capital podcasts, and its associated fund.

matt swulinski

Matt Swulinski is a growth leader who scaled Wispr Flow and Superhuman using paid acquisition, UGC creator programs, and AI-driven marketing operations; now Head of Growth at Victor.com.

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“at the end of the day it was it was very much a you know premium product immediate payw wall and the the core ICP was founders right and and we also experienced this at whisper right like the uh early adop opter tech founder is not an infi…”
—matt swulinski

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