Khan: Loom Offered $5 Referral Credits at 100K–200K Users
Shahid Khan · Throwback: Before Loom Was Worth $1.5b, Founder Describes Paywall Launch · Jun 8, 2021 · at 3:56
Loom co-founder Shahid Khan explains the company's early viral growth loops and referral incentives to Nathan Latka.
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“We experimented quite a bit with like a referral system where we would give say like five dollars in Loom credits for every person you'd refer back to Loom. And that kind of encouraged people early on, probably when we were at a 102 100,000 users to invite their coworkers.”
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