Kamleitner: Software companies cannot rely exclusively on paid ads for sustainable growth
Michael Kamleitner · 1433 Can You Run 2 $1.5m ARR Companies At Same Time? · Jun 27, 2019 · at 14:26
Michael Kamleitner, founder of Walls.io, discusses the scalability limits of paid acquisition channels with Nathan Latka.
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“Paid paid acquisition through adverts also, also at some point hits the ceiling. And we are seeing, like you said, the space is competitive. So, so it will not be it will not work to grow only from cost per click forever.”
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