Marigold·Issue Nº 31·Summer 2026·Growth & Apps, Independently
Section · 03

Conversations — long,
slow, with the people
doing the work.

Heads of growth, marketing leads, brand designers, and the occasional founder. We talk for at least an hour, often more. The transcripts are lightly edited but never reordered. Identities are real unless the subject asks to be anonymised.

Recent conversations.

Head of growth
Conversation · Head of Growth

"I deleted half our marketing automation. Conversions went up."

A long conversation with the head of growth at a UK-based mobile app company who, over eighteen months, stripped out roughly half the automated lifecycle messaging her team had inherited.

Daria Voicu · 18 minRead conversation →
Brand designer
Conversation · Designer

The brand designer who works only with companies under twenty people.

Nine years, perhaps thirty engagements, no agency, no team.

Maddalena Roth · 12 minRead conversation →