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Blake Hirt

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Blake Hirt
Community EIR, Marketplace Growth Consultant, Advisor
Chicago, IL
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About

Blake Hirt is a B2C marketplace startup consultant & fractional executive. Blake helps early-stage marketplaces build and execute a sustainable product-led growth strategy, primarily focusing on new user activation, funnel optimization, and generating viral growth.

Prior to launching his consulting firm, Blake worked at Uber for 4 years in growth, operations, and product leadership roles across 3 different business lines (Rides, Eats, Works). Before Uber, Blake began started his career as a Management Consultant at Accenture, learning a lot of useless jargon.

Blake can help with the following:

  • Growth strategy: Developing an overall growth strategy around a north star metric and all of the underlying metrics and levers
  • User onboarding & funnel optimization: Leveraging quantitative and qualitative data to increase user activation rate and decrease CAC
  • Engagement and retention: Deep analysis to understand what’s driving engagement and retention for certain cohorts and how to improve those metrics to increase LTV
  • Marketing & positioning: Determining which language to use to increase user attention and conversion
  • Pricing & unit economics: Determining the optimal pricing to maximize LTV/CAC and ensure you’re building a sustainable business

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Links: Everything Marketplaces profile, LinkedIn

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Growth
Marketing
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Testimonials

“Collaborating with Blake on our growth strategy was highly rewarding. He has a sharp focus on priorities, identifying and benchmarking goals to guide our projects effectively. His commitment and strategic approach to understanding our activation and conversion funnels allowed us to pinpoint and focus on the right levers to drive impactful results. Blake’s strategic contributions and guidance in developing and implementing a strategy focused on product-led principles not only pushed our projects forward but also delivered measurable results. Working with Blake was a pleasure, and I would gladly collaborate with him again. He's an invaluable asset to any startup and leadership team focused on product strategy and growth.”

-Selin O, PM at Magpie


“Blake is an absolute stud. We were fortunate to get Blake's assistance early on in our journey. A lot of which was through his inspiration, dedication, and work.”

-Jack B, Founder/CEO of Habits


"Blake was EXACTLY the guy I needed! A true expert in his field. He is absolutely great to work with. I can't recommend him enough."

-Stephanie P, Founder/CEO of Ssuse


“Blake is 11 out of 10."

-Louis L, Founder/CEO of Conquer


“Blake is amazing. Quick and competent.”

-Joshua H, EVP at Mitchell Martin