Bendray: One Olive co-founder spends half their time running paywall experiments
Sid Bendray · How This 25 Year Old College Kid Built a $500K/Month App Empire · Jul 15, 2025 · at 14:58
Sid Bendray, co-founder of mobile app studio Olive, explains to Nathan Latka why the company heavily prioritizes continuous paywall testing.
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“That's literally like what half the time one of my co-founders runs on is just like a running a shit ton of experiments. Cause we've seen a lot of like a value from this in terms of like It's ability to like drive revenue change significantly.”
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