Jonathan Metrick, Partner and Chief Growth Officer at Sagard, shares his unique journey from operator to private equity leader. He discusses the importance of embracing a company's 'superpower' for long-term success. Jonathan highlights how Sagard empowers portfolio companies through strategic go-to-market approaches and AI innovations. He emphasizes the need for connected data systems to drive profit-centric growth and explains how small changes in response time can significantly boost conversion rates. Gain insights on leveraging benchmarking for accelerated scaling.

Alex is on a well-deserved vacation this week, so for the Equity Wednesday deep dive, we took the conversation to Twitter Spaces. Danny, Mary Ann, and Jonathan Metrick, Chief Growth Officer at Portage Ventures, dove into growth marketing. You can listen to the full episode on the Equity Podcast feed.This conversation was spurred by the TechCrunch Experts project, where we're looking for the best growth marketers for startups. Metrick had been recommended to us in July (you can read his featured recommendation in our growth roundup) and we were eager to have the opportunity to learn from his experience.Help TechCrunch find the best growth marketers for startups.Provide a recommendation in this quick survey and we'll share the results with everybody.In this conversation, we cover: Influencers take on the marketing world Challenges marketers face with iOS 14 How Metrick sees trends develop geographically New capabilities with attribute in the past year What holiday advertising might look like in 2021 Credits: Equity is produced by Theresa Loconsolo with editing by Kell. Bryce Durbin is our Illustrator. We'd also like to thank the audience development team and Henry Pickavet, who manages TechCrunch audio products. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices