A counterpoint: https://medium.com/designing-for-results/if-by-growth-hackin...
Re:Lecture 3: How to Start a Startup
by recentdarkness on Wednesday October 01, 2014 @06:58AM
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TLDR; but you can simply see "growth hacking" as a manner of tinkering with changes to your product/workflow/communication until it shows a positive effect on userbase growth.
...this is exacerbated by the existence of this term "growth hacks"... whenever you hear anybody talk about "growth hacks", just mentally translate it... to "bullshit".