Sean Ellis is an American 🏷️#entrepreneur and growth-marketing pioneer best known as the founder and CEO of Qualaroo — and as the person who coined the term 📝Growth Hacking in 2010 while working as a marketing consultant to early-stage startups.
Earlier in his career, Ellis led marketing at Dropbox, LogMeIn, and Eventbrite, where his work shaped early playbooks for product-led growth. He went on to found GrowthHackers.com, a community and toolkit for growth practitioners, and co-authored the book Hacking Growth (Crown Business, 2017) with Morgan Brown. He is often credited with formalizing what had been an emergent practice into a teachable discipline.