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20Growth: How Transferwise Acquired Their First 5M Customers: The Two Types of Content All Companies Must Create, How to Crush Competition With Performance Marketing, What Growth Hacks Worked and Did Not with Nilan Peiris, CPO @ Wise

The Twenty Minute VC (20VC): Venture Capital | Startup Funding | The Pitch

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Trust is Contagious: Harnessing Social Influence

Investment in product marketing to communicate safety is crucial, but the primary driver of trust lies in word-of-mouth recommendations from existing customers. Companies like Revolut successfully redesigned their product strategies to emphasize group payments, recognizing that social pressure and peer influence play significant roles in driving product adoption. This approach illustrates the effectiveness of leveraging social dynamics, as friends encouraging each other to adopt a product can lead to a substantial increase in usage, similar to strategies utilized by other neo banks such as Monzo and Chime.

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