Okay enough is enough. This is like a bad sitcom that nobody wants to admit isn’t funny, yet it’s renewed every season.
I think the growth team should be either dissolved or have it’s budget greatly reduced. You’d think the growth team would focus on just that, growth. Not just talking about PoolTogether to an audience of bots and or very meager amounts of listeners.
$25,000 budget split between 6-7 people over 3 months with not much to show for it. Throwing “Pool parties” for 5 people is laughable. I was against this team early on but see I should have been much more vocal about it instead. There simply isn’t much substance, and when there is it’s not reaching people of note.
Are there any more data on the KPI’s established by this team we can review?
This link is a couple screenshots from several months ago Growth Stats - Google Docs
This might seem like an attack on the growth team but sometimes just having a good attitude and intentions isn’t enough in the real world. Spending $8,333 per month for a fan-club that seemingly shows up for ritual meetings (growth, community call, council, podcast, Deep end) is ridiculous. You can check the message history of the members on discord yourself. It’s lackluster at best for most.
How about the Governance forum?
Maybe the partnerships tag will have some engagement.
I understand the often low quality “partnership” opportunities presented here but is it so hard to at least reply to them? Even if it’s not a listed responsibility, wouldn’t that be where the Growth team would look?
Imagine how much impact an actual marketing campaign could have instead of spending it on a repeatedly failed set of experiments.
The larger issue at hand here is that we are far too lenient on spending the PoolTogether treasury in in-effective ways to “trusted” people without real results.