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Scott Hurff
Founder & Chief Product Officer at Churnkey
Author of Designing Products People Love
- SaaS
- Entrepreneur
- 📍Santa Monica, CA
Scott grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and started a bunch of dumb businesses but always made money.
He went to college at Wake Forest in North Carolina, majoring in Political Science and Economics. During his time in college, Scott was very political and interned in DC.
Then, he realized that he loved starting businesses. He started a company in college and became EIR at a Boston VC firm after graduation to work on it.
When that failed, Scott joined pre-IPO ChannelAdvisor and worked directly with founder/CEO Scot Wingo.
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LET'S TALK ABOUT
- Running high-profile product design projects within pressure cooker startups → publicly traded companies
- Figuring out how to create products and their features, then how to design them
- My current co-founder met his wife because of Super Like on Tinder
- Being on the founding team of Casa, a Bitcoin security company that made personal crypto security approachable, and doing EVERYTHING design
- Figuring out how to make crypto security approachable and human, Apple-ifying an opaque industry
- Sci-fi writing, movies, themes, and how it's more a reflection of ourselves than a technological exploration
- How to write a book
- Metal, downtempo, trip-hop, and jazz music
- Star Wars, Star Trek, sci-fi in general
- Genre fiction writing (I worked with Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams at a workshop called Taos Toolbox)
- Life raising three kids under four years old in Los Angeles
- Living in Los Angeles for over ten years
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Scott moved to Los Angeles to work with a team who eventually built Tappy, which was Tinder's first acquisition. At Tinder, he created the Super Like and built the foundation for their crazy successful subscription business.
Next, he co-founded Casa, the world's first personal Bitcoin security company. After five years, he started Churnkey.
Now, Scott has three kids under four and lives with his wife and family in Santa Monica.
BOOK NOW FOR your podcast
Scott Hurff
Founder & Chief Product Officer at Churnkey
Author of Designing Products People Love
- 📍Santa Monica, CA
- SaaS
- Entrepreneur
Scott grew up in Columbus, Ohio, and started a bunch of dumb businesses but always made money.
He went to college at Wake Forest in North Carolina, majoring in Political Science and Economics. During his time in college, Scott was very political and interned in DC.
Then, he realized that he loved starting businesses. He started a company in college and became EIR at a Boston VC firm after graduation to work on it.
When that failed, Scott joined pre-IPO ChannelAdvisor and worked directly with founder/CEO Scot Wingo.
read more
LET'S TALK ABOUT
- Running high-profile product design projects within pressure cooker startups → publicly traded companies
- Figuring out how to create products and their features, then how to design them
- My current co-founder met his wife because of Super Like on Tinder
- Being on the founding team of Casa, a Bitcoin security company that made personal crypto security approachable, and doing EVERYTHING design
- Figuring out how to make crypto security approachable and human, Apple-ifying an opaque industry
- Sci-fi writing, movies, themes, and how it's more a reflection of ourselves than a technological exploration
- How to write a book
- Metal, downtempo, trip-hop, and jazz music
- Star Wars, Star Trek, sci-fi in general
- Genre fiction writing (I worked with Nancy Kress and Walter Jon Williams at a workshop called Taos Toolbox)
- Life raising three kids under four years old in Los Angeles
- Living in Los Angeles for over ten years
--
Scott moved to Los Angeles to work with a team who eventually built Tappy, which was Tinder's first acquisition. At Tinder, he created the Super Like and built the foundation for their crazy successful subscription business.
Next, he co-founded Casa, the world's first personal Bitcoin security company. After five years, he started Churnkey.
Now, Scott has three kids under four and lives with his wife and family in Santa Monica.
Timeline
Sep 2020 - Present
Churnkey
Founder & Chief Product Officer
Sep 2017 - Jun 2022
Casa Inc.
Founding Designer & Head of Design
Aug 2016 - Feb 2018
Philosophie Group Inc.
Director of Product Design
Jan 2015 - Jul 2016
Tinder
Product Manager & Lead Designer
Jan 2010 - Jan 2015
Tappy
Head of Product & Founding Team
Apr 2007 - Jan 2010
ChannelAdvisor
Global Product Marketing Manager
Sep 2006 - Mar 2007
Kodiak Venture Partners
Entrepreneur-in-Residence
Ask me
Why do you now prefer B2B companies over B2C, after spending ~15 years working in B2C startups? |
How did Tinder's Super Like — the most successful early revenue product at the company — start with "This should take a week. It's just adding a button," and how did you create the template for Tinder's revenue ecosystem? |
What did you see inside Tinder and what did it teach you about subscription businesses? |
What is the key to designing products that people love? |
What have you learned in your years of entrepreneurship? |