A growth-hacker is someone who extracts large amounts of money from hopeful customers awaiting magic growth, similar to how certain companies promise to enlarge certain body parts as if by magic.

If you think about it long enough you reach the conclusion that any growth-hacker that is not working on a no-cure-no-pay and if-I-break-it-I-am-liable base should simply not be engaged. It's the new SEO.

Anyone in advertising or marketing could probably call themselves a "growth hacker". Apparently the term "hacker" is the hot thing, so it gets thrown around as if it means something anymore.

Ten years ago: "Software Engineer". Today: "Java / Full-stack hacker". Ten years ago: "Accountant". Today: "Financial hacker".

It's the equivalent of calling yourself a "ninja rockstar hacker"

Apparently it's the promise of something-for-nothing through nebulous means, similar to social media marketing and viral marketing.

Yeah I messed up. I'll link to it in the post:

http://www.aginnt.com/growth-hacker#.Uii2m2TORe4

He did link straight to a definition.

http://www.aginnt.com/growth-hacker