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Gurski: Flo is the only genuinely monetizable app in its category

Dimitri Gurski · From mushroom-picking in Belarus to $200M/year. How he built Flo Health into a $1B health app. | ... · PMF Show · Mar 10, 2025 · at 13:00

Flo Health co-founder Dmitry Gurski argues that surrounding a period tracker with a broad content and feature ecosystem makes Flo uniquely monetizable.

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“And it's still the single really monetizable app at the market because of the single app which like heavy enough to be monetizable.”

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