Builders of brands, bail funds and cinemas, heard out patiently.
The Growth Show, a HubSpot podcast, sits down with people who built things: a dog-toy subscription company, a bail fund, a Boston movie house, a YouTube cooking channel. The questions move between concrete operations, like how a company reads its customer data, and the larger matter of what a builder learned.
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The Growth Show is a HubSpot podcast about how people grow businesses, ideas and causes. Its range is the first thing that stands out. Matthew Brown is listed as host. In several 2020 episodes, Megan Keeney Anderson signs off, and Matthew Brown is credited with writing and producing. The episode titles run from subscription commerce to bail funds to YouTube cooking to augmented reality. That spread is the point. Some episodes include a scene early on. Welcome to the Mirror World features an imagined 2050, where augmented reality glasses turn a bathroom wall into a calendar and blue arrows guide a driver to a parking spot. How Indie Theaters Are Bringing the Silver Screen to Your TV Screen includes a scene on a Friday night beneath an Art Deco sign. The conversation with Kevin Kelly then turns practical. It covers how augmented reality may reach warehouses and repair work before it reaches homes, and how much personal data a mirror world would need to capture. Its lightning round names cyber war as a fear, because no agreed rules govern it. The mission-driven episodes carry real weight. The Minnesota Freedom Fund episode describes Greg Lewin, its interim executive director, facing a choice in Minneapolis between joining the protests and paying bail for the people being arrested. Over 900,000 donations totaling more than 30 million dollars followed, and the conversation sets that windfall against jail budgets that still exceed it. The Aequales episode, with co-CEOs Mia Perdomo and Andrea de la Piedra, discusses pay-gap figures, including 49 to 68 cents on the dollar for women in Colombia, and later considers whether the pandemic marks a backslide for women at work. The lighter episodes still keep close watch on mechanics. The BarkBox conversation with co-founder Matt Meeker runs from a pig that changed the company's approach to personalization to a crisis-era focus on cash and customer quality. The episode with the creator of Binging with Babish sets audience feedback and a companion cookbook beside his depression and a lingering loss of taste after COVID-19. The Coolidge Corner Theater, a Boston nonprofit movie house that opened in 1933, appears mid-pandemic with a virtual screening room, a search for a drive-in site and curbside concessions. The pacing is unhurried, and guests get room to finish a thought. Other titles widen the map: Black is Beautiful, The Future of How We Buy is Sound, Real Corporate Anti-Racist Training Starts at the Top, and Trading Camp Canoes for Virtual Classrooms. Other titles keep that breadth, including What does winning a James Beard Award really mean for chefs? and Where do tennis balls go when they die? For a first listen, the Minnesota Freedom Fund episode shows the show at its most serious. The BarkBox conversation shows its business-mechanics side.
Made for: Suits a listener who wants the operational story behind a growing organization told alongside the personal side, whether the subject is a startup, a nonprofit or a creator business.
What sets it apart: Suits a listener who values range. The same measured curiosity is applied to a bail fund under pressure, a dog-toy brand and an augmented-reality forecast, and some episodes include a scene-setting passage.
Starting a business has never been easier. But finding success in one has never been harder. Each episode explores the inspiring stories behind how people grow a business, an idea, or a movement. Hosted by Matthew Brown.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · October 2026
The Growth Show brings operator questions about cash and scale to bail funds and indie cinemas as readily as to subscription brands.
A bail fund that took in more than 30 million dollars within a short span gets the same patient questioning on The Growth Show as a dog-toy subscription company putting cash first in an uncertain year. Matthew Brown is the listed host of this HubSpot podcast.
One pig reshaped BarkBox's personalization, and The Growth Show treats that as properly serious business.
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A business-minded look at augmented reality, presence, and the risk of letting ads become the mirror world's default economy.
The Growth Show uses Kevin Kelly's mirror world idea to turn augmented reality from a gadget story into a business model story. The episode opens with a brisk 2050-ish scenario: glasses putting headlines and sleep data on a bathroom wall, navigation arrows hanging over the road,…
A sharp nonprofit growth case about money, attention, and operations arriving faster than the organization could comfortably absorb.
The Minnesota Freedom Fund went from a local bail and immigration bond fund to the center of a global donation surge after George Floyd's death.
Aequales makes the business case for measuring gender equality as a company system, not a slogan.
Aequales comes through as a practical answer to a problem many companies still treat as abstract: workplace gender equality. The episode grounds the case in pay and leadership gaps, then follows Mia Perdomo and Andrea de la Piedra as they explain how Aequales measures what…
A practical founder story about ultrasonic commerce, risk, and spotting retail friction early.
The Future of How We Buy is Sound uses Rodney Williams's founder story to make a clear business case for Listener, a company built around ultrasonic sound as a way to pass consumer information without the usual coupons, scans, taps, and other friction at the point of purchase.
A grounded creator-business story about audience signals, weekly discipline, and the rise of Binging with Babish.
Why Binging with Babish Says Audience Knows Best frames Andrew Ray's YouTube rise as a practical story about creative momentum and audience signals.
A clear leadership-focused conversation on anti-racist training, inclusive marketing, and turning awareness into workplace responsibility.
Workplace anti-racism comes through as a leadership problem before it is a training problem. Megan Keeney Anderson opens with companies reassessing racism and bias after George Floyd's death, then gives Kim Crowder room to explain why her work begins with one question: how…
A focused operator story about how an indie theater turned curation and customer loyalty into a virtual screening room.
The Growth Show turns Coolidge Corner Theater's shutdown pivot into a grounded operator story. Catherine Tallman describes how the Boston nonprofit, long built around in-person curation, moved into a virtual screening room after an independent distributor asked whether the…
Rob Walling on bootstrapped SaaS growth, plateaus, and exits — with founders who lived them.
Abbey Ashley's playbook for turning your job skills into a virtual assistant business.
SaaS operators on scaling, pricing and AI, metrics included.
Alex Blumberg interviews guests like Megan Phelps-Roper and Shane McAnally about failure and reinvention.
A HubSpot Growth Show host spends a day working for free at Greg Walsh's Christmas tree stand in Park Slope, Brooklyn, to expose the hidden economics of New York City's seasonal tree trade.
Chef Chintan Pandya, winner of the 2022 James Beard Award for Best Chef New York State, shares how the award caught him completely off guard — he hadn't even prepared a speech.
It opens in 2050, give or take.
Time did not slow down.
Gender gaps do not close on autopilot.
Sound becomes a way to buy.
Cooking stays in the background.
Racism at work is not an abstract issue.
Friday night feels distant.