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Christian Smutherman

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CMO at PayPhi
📍 Silver Spring, Maryland, United States

Christian is the Founder and CEO of Growth Loop, a firm that partners with service businesses to transform their expertise into systematic revenue. He specializes in building automated "Growth Intelligence Systems" that create predictable pipelines. He studied English at Princeton University and holds a business credential from Harvard Business School Online.

Christians entrepreneurial drive started at age seven, selling candy door-to-door, which evolved into a candy company in high school. He has a passion for language and writing, having won an award for creative writing at Princeton and received a Gilman Scholarship for intensive Chinese language study in Beijing.

Interesting fact: Christian launched his first venture, a "candy empire," in high school, showing his entrepreneurial spirit from a young age.

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Experience
9 Years
Current Role
CMO
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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B2B Growth Systems
Helps service businesses scale past the $100K/month mark by building predictable, automated marketing and sales systems.
The Founder Journey
He openly discusses his own entrepreneurial path, including early failures, to emphasize the importance of resilience, focus, and learning.
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Career

Work history

9-2024
CMO
PayPhi
5-2020
Founder & CEO
Growth Loop
8-2018 - 6-2019
Strategy Fellow
Teaching Lab
2-2018 - 2-2022
Partner
City78
6-2017 - 4-2018
Content Director
CityBridge Education
In the press

Media appearances

Growth Loop - Overview, Revenue, News, Podcast. Featured in FTS Pod
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Education
2010 - 2014
English
Princeton University
2015 - 2016
Other; "Core
Harvard Business School Online
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