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Albert Cheng

Chief Growth Officer @ Chess.com

Led growth at Duolingo, Grammarly, and Chess.com. Former Google PM known for rapid experimentation and scaling consumer subscriptions.

β€œFinding hidden growth opportunities in your product, covering growth systems, measurement and analysis, and product design.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Chess.comChief Growth Officer~2023-present
DuolingoHead of Product Growth and Monetization~2021-2023
GrammarlyHead of Product Growth and Monetization~2019-2021
YouTube (Google)Product Manager~2016-2019

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β€œSo I was the stereotypical baby that would listen to Mozart, I guess when I was sleeping type of thing. And I still vividly remember we had this upright Yamaha piano, and at the very top of the piano ...”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œSo I could listen to a song and then just a very, very clear understanding of which note I'm supposed to start with and if I'm playing something wrong. So it's very helpful.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œYeah, I initially came up or heard with, heard about explore and exploit through my engineering partner at Grammarly, Nermal, and I think he actually had taken some reforged classes. So maybe the orig...”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œHow can you rewrite entire sentences, that type of thing. And so the observed behavior from all that tracking and data was that actually a very small percentage of our free users was deciding to accep...”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œIt's basically a reverse free trial but in real time while you're writing as opposed to a time-based one. So we adopted some patterns that are in the industry, but molded it to Grammarly's specific us...”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œYeah, well, I'm not proud of being devious, but.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œIt's achievable. It's achievable in theory, but there are so many options out there in the market and people are feeling a lot of app and product bloat.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œBut yeah, the ethos of the company. They hire a lot of intelligent, energetic people out of college basically, and they give them a lot of amazing experimentation, tooling, and they care a lot about t...”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œYeah, and a lot more meaningful strategic decisions as well.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œThe thing that's most unique about chess.com is that they're super fanatical about chess.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œI will not admit or deny that I've done that before.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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β€œMy 4-year-old can actually set up the pieces, which is pretty great. So he enjoys the game quite a bit.”
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How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product | Albert Cheng (Duolingo, Grammarly, Chess.com)

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