Sakis Triantafyllakis, Orfium

Member story

“It's always nice to see that you are not alone and that other people are facing similar challenges.”

Sakis Triantafyllakis

Head of Growth · Orfium

Greece · orfium.com ↗ · Jun 2022

Customer InterviewsGrowthProduct Strategy

The Work

Tell us about what you are currently working on.

I am leading growth and strategic initiatives for a fast growing tech company in the music space.

We are working on building products that will help creators and rights owner to be compensated fairly, fast and in a transparent way.

Before

Before you learned about GrowthMentor, how did you deal with the challenges you faced?

A lot of reading (growthhackers.com, blogs, books, Josh Fechter FB Group, etc) and cold outreach on linked-in with role models.

The Decision

What ultimately compelled you to sign up for GrowthMentor?

Transparent pricing, Lots of features (amazing mentors, lots of topics, webinars, etc), Personalised customer support and Slack community

Inside the Platform

What's your favorite thing about GrowthMentor?

I really enjoy the community, the talent within the community and the mentality (open and sharing)!

What topics have you mostly discussed with mentors?

Mostly customer and user research, since I was trying to validate our direction, and our go-to-market strategy. A lot of the calls were about how to run good customer interviews and build a questionnaire that actually gives you useful answers. I also got into content strategy, defining our ICP, and even a financial and M&A question at one point.

The Breakthrough

Is there a specific session/mentor that stands out in your mind as super helpful?

So many to talk about, but I would like to mention Daphne Tideman as she was the first session I had. She was super helpful with how to approach customer interviews, shared her own framework & questionnaire. She also suggested a great book to read. Ryan Paul Gibson was another go-to for research, he showed me how to actually run the interviews and stayed on after the call to give feedback on my questionnaire. And when I had a financial and M&A challenge, Blair Morrison was the perfect fit, her investment banking background showed straight away.

The Transformation

How has GrowthMentor helped you?

The sessions were always helpful and a great way to share your concerns and challenges with like-minded people.

I am fortunate to have received some great insights and actionable take-aways for me to try out.

Some of the mentors even shared some frameworks and guides that made my life easier!

It's always nice to see that you are not alone and that other people are facing similar challenges. I think that I have evolved as a professional thanks to GrowthMentor!

The Verdict