High-margin subprime products buy top comparison ranking slots despite lower quality
Miron Lulic · 1147 We make $200k/mo helping people find financial products · Sep 14, 2018 · at 7:35
Miron Lulic, founder and CEO of SuperMoney, discusses the risks of pay-to-play monetization models on financial comparison platforms.
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“Especially in sort of like subprime verticals, typically, you know, somebody with more margin will push their way up to the top and won't really align with the, you know, the general market of what is the best option.”
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