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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

Yes, the most famous early implementation of referral programs came from Dropbox, which inspired a generation of startups — particularly YCombinator-backed startups — to experiment with similar ideas. Big bang launch at a tech conference. What’s the message? Why did this make sense for them? All of them?

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Solve a Hard Problem (Tinder). Chapter 8 of my upcoming book, The Cold Start Problem

Andrew Chen

It’s the story of how messaging apps, marketplaces, workplace collaboration tools, multiplayer games, all share a common thread of being products that connect people with each other. My book aims to change that, systematically laying out concepts for startups and folks launching new products to consider. This all created trust.