Merge grew entirely organically with only a $200 paid marketing trial
Gil Feig · How this DevOps Tool Plans to Break $1m in First 9 months · Jul 19, 2021 · at 11:54
Gil Feig, co-founder of Merge, discusses customer acquisition strategy with Nathan Latka.
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“All organic, all word of mouth. I think we ran like a 200 dollar trial on paid marketing.”
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