How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction(medium.com)
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How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction
https://medium.com/platform-thinking/how-paypal-and-reddit-faked-their-way-to-traction-9411fb583205
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When Paypal was still part of X.com (1999 or 2000?) they paid new users to sign up ($10 added to your new account).
I'd be interested to hear more stories like this about seeding sites successfully without appearing fake. I've seen a lot of startups seed their sites in ways that just look too obvious.