We put founders on a call with someone who has done it.

You can build anything now. Getting customers is the hard part, and it's lonely to work out alone. That's why GrowthMentor exists.

A session in progress

Live, one on one · 30 minutes

That's us, Foti and Jessica, the co-founders, pretending to have a very deep conversation.

How it started.

I started GrowthMentor in 2018, out of an apartment in Athens, for a fairly unglamorous reason. I was professionally lonely.
For years I'd been the growth guy at a hosting company, usually the only person in the room who did what I did. When I got stuck on a real decision, there was no one to think it through with. So I started hiring freelancers off Upwork, not really for the work, but to have someone on the other end of a call who understood the problem.
Those calls did something I didn't expect. Thirty minutes with a person who had already solved the thing I was staring at would unstick a week of spinning. I'd hang up knowing exactly what to do next.
That was the whole idea. Not a course, not a directory of names. Just more of those conversations, with people who had been exactly where you are, available right when you needed them.

GrowthMentor came out of my own loneliness. The mission has stayed the same since: help people grow together by having more chats.

Foti Panagiotakopoulos

Co-Founder and CEO

Our core values.

Humility

Nobody knows everything and we should all be open to hearing a different perspective on what we are working on.

The marketing world and the tools available are changing at light speed, so how can any one person be expected to keep up?

Opening yourself up to feedback from your peers will not only make you a stronger person, but also lead to more confidence in your professional life.

Active learning

What matters is what you’re doing with that knowledge.

It is so easy to get enthralled with the marketing blog world and spend copious amounts of time listening to the smartest of smart peeps on their podcasts.

It’s great to take it all in, but at the end of the day, that’s all passive learning. You’re absorbing everything that they are saying, but really anyone can do that.

Are you moving forward and testing out what you just read?
Are you having conversations about what you want to try?

Even verbalizing out loud what you just read about can help you to process it fully.

Human relationships

People make the world go round.

Sorry agents, you may be impressive, but I’d still rather talk to a human any day. We believe in the lost art of simply “having a chat”.

GrowthMentor comes down to people helping people. Establishing relationships with marketing professionals from all over the world and sharing failures, ideas and goals is a pretty cool thing in our book.

We’ve spent many an hour going over every aspect and scrutinizing every tiny detail of this platform, having disagreements mixed in with laughter (and the occasional bottle of wine).

The team.

A small, international team, working on this since 2018.

Foti

Co-founder & CEO

Foti spent a decade as the growth guy at a hosting company before building the thing he wished existed. These days his job is mostly introducing people to each other and then getting out of the way.