Product-led Growth

The second built in PLA channel Cash App is using is billboarding—when a user’s use of your product is visible to others around them. For example:

1. When your product is physically recognizable, like touting the new iPhone or MacBook in a coffee shop, or wearing Adidas sneakers. This is passive experiential virality where you just see it as you go

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Artificial invitation mechanisms (i.e refer a friend) are not PLG. Sustainable growth from the product comes from built in in natural product-led acquisition. Don't start a startup where you need to go through someone else to get users.