The engine
Owned demand
Growth rented at ad auctions
Acquisition cost rises with every quarter, and it eats your margin.
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PLG Accelerator
Your acquisition cost keeps rising. Free users do not turn into paying customers. Every new point of growth seems to need another salesperson. Product-Led Growth changes that, when it is designed as a business strategy and not as a pricing trick.
SprintA focused programme · activation, conversion, retention
Sign-ups12,400
Activated4,712
Leak: no first value in week one
Paying744
Leak: upgrade path hidden
Expanded248
Leak: no expansion in packaging
22months
When growth depends on ad spend and headcount, every new point of it costs more than the last, and long, costly sales cycles slow it down further.
The engine
Owned demand
Acquisition cost rises with every quarter, and it eats your margin.
Read the disciplineActivationfirst value
Base expansionNRR
The money is in the customers you already have, and they stall before the first moment of value.
Read the disciplineProduct-led
€Partners
€€Sales
€€€The whole P&L
the channel sets both lines
The best product loses to the best distributed one. Every new point of growth needs another hire.
Read the disciplineMost companies treat Product-Led Growth as a freemium plan or a new onboarding screen. It is a shift in how you think about growth, team structure, ownership and how fast you learn. If you cannot test fast, you cannot learn; if you cannot measure impact, you cannot prioritise. And it only works when product, marketing and pricing speak the same language.
Product-led, sales-assisted or through partners, for your product, your deal size and your economics.
Across acquisition, activation, conversion and retention, with a number attached to each.
The first moment of value, the upgrade path, the packaging that makes expansion natural.
Fast tests, measured impact, then the next priority.
A plan that fits your product, your market, your deal size and your business goals. Some products should be product-led. Some should combine it with sales or partners.
The product becomes the place where free users turn into paying customers: the first moment of value, the upgrade path, the packaging that makes expansion natural.
I find and fix the friction points across acquisition, activation, conversion and retention, with a number attached to each.
Software companies whose growth depends on rising acquisition spend and a growing sales team.
I owned the Product Marketing and Product-Led Growth strategy. Combining PLG with indirect distribution, the first customers arrived in batches of 100.
Head of Product Marketing & PLG, leading the team during its head’s leave.
I led Product-Led Growth initiatives as Strategy & Performance Director.
Talk on Product-Led Growth.
Mathieu’s methodology is highly effective. In three days, we not only identified our conversion problems but also obtained a precise action plan to solve them. Exactly what we needed.
Account AcmeStarterBusiness
landedexpanded
Seats
Account revenue
×The programme ends with a product that carries part of the selling, and a team that knows how to keep testing. Three ways to go on.
Next sprint
When the product sells itself to the wrong buyer, or cannot say why it wins.
Keep it on course
Regular sessions while your team runs the tests and moves the money.
Flagship
If the plan needs someone in the seat to run it, I take the role for a while, build the function and hand it over.