Growth Operator Mike Griffith

Experience with marketing, growth, ops, and generally just figuring stuff out. Several pivots in my career with wins across ecommerce, growth agencies, DeFi, and more. Built and exited two agencies, launched tokens, and drove $30B+ in trading volume. Off the clock: three kids, long miles in the Sierra Nevada, and the occasional finish line.

Location — California, US
Focus — GTM · Ecosystems · Growth · Fitness
Marathon — 3:48
Half Ironman — 5:56

Selected Wins

A career in numbers
$0
Notional trading volume driven in six months at Synthetix
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Active subscribers added through email acquisition at Katana
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Agency exits — one PE-backed, one founder-led acquisition
$0
Monthly digital spend owned across Google, Meta, and TikTok
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Team members led at the largest division I built

Index

07 projects · click a row

Advisory & Councils

Ecosystem work
A1

Synthetix Grants Council

  • Elected council member funding ecosystem tooling, integrations, and community projects for the Synthetix protocol.
  • Streamlined funding and RFP process to better align grants with current protocol priorities.
  • Funded Kwenta, Polynomial, dHedge, TLX, and other integration partners.
  • Funded DeFi Llama, community Dune dashboards, L2Beat, Zapper, and other tooling partners.
2021 — 2023
A2

Lyra (now Derive) Grants Council

Council member allocating grants across the Lyra options protocol ecosystem. Primarily focused on marketing related initiatives including content creation, community competitions, and analytics.

2023
A3

Mizzen+Main

Advised and coordinated on growth marketing strategies with a marketing team of 8.

2019

The Graveyard

Dead & abandoned side projects · rest easy

Some of them were profitable for a time, some were big losers. I learned something from all of them.

Beyond Work

The other resume
×3

Kids

Husband and dad of three. The most demanding stakeholder group I've ever reported to.

19,341ft

Backpacking

I've climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro, Mt. Whitney, and good sections of the JMT and PCT. Nothing like a good 5 days hiking up a mountain to reset.

3:48/5:56

Endurance

Marathon at 3:48. Half Ironman at 5:56. Training blocks are where the discipline for long-horizon work gets built.

26.2 · 70.3 · repeat

Get in
touch.

Building something interesting? My inbox is open.

Telegram — @mikegriff