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Luc Levesque

CEO & Co-Founder @ Stealth AI Startup

Former Chief Growth Officer at Shopify. Advisor to Canva and Pinterest.

β€œLeveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft, covering team leadership, product design, and strategic decision-making.”

Career History

CompanyRoleYears
Stealth AI StartupCEO & Co-Founder~2024-present
ShopifyChief Growth Officer~2020-2024
MetaExecutive, Product & Engineering Leadership~2017-2020
TripAdvisorVP of Growth~2006-2017
TravelPod (acquired by Expedia)Founder & CEO~1997-2006

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β€œThat did not happen. I had a report.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

6:45
β€œSo just be relentless, involve the family, involve the spouse if you can, and recruit some help from other executives in the company. Those were some of the things that stood out through my experience...”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

12:45
β€œBut I haven't seen that too often where founders kind of take advantage of people they know or existing growth advisors to help recruit and vet talent because it can be quite hard if you don't know th...”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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β€œYep, there's some great people that have been on here. Definitely.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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β€œI haven't done that, but that seems like a reasonable way to do it.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

36:39
β€œWell, not to disqualify all the people on Twitter.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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β€œYeah, I've been doing SEO for a really long time. It's a lot of fun and certainly being a supervisor was a great learning ground for that, that we were able to really innovate and try new things there...”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

42:55
β€œThere's different ways of doing it, but a good content strategy is a kind of tried and true approach. Definitely.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

46:07
β€œOh, yeah. Ideally, you hire an amazing SEO person who can bring internal. Second would be somebody amazing who can get things done, surround them with advisors. And then in my stack rank, the third wo...”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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β€œWow. Wow. That's deep. I like that a lot.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

1:05:37
β€œI think interesting is the right way to think about it.”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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β€œYeah, it's a great book, and it's because it's really the underpinning of so many different product and growth principles that you can apply. So that's just a classic that is good to reread at least o...”
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Leveraging growth advisors, hiring well, mastering SEO, and honing your craft | Luc Levesque (Shopify, Meta, TripAdvisor)

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