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Tom Orbach's avatar

100%!!!

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

🙌 I *never* see this talked about (outside of a security focused engineer calling it out & getting ignored in a meeting 🤦)

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Colin's avatar

I'm still working through Dawn of Everything. It's been a year and a half.

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

I had to stop reading the footnotes at some point 😂

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Ben Williams's avatar

Great post Kyle. Such a pernicious problem!

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Kyle Poyar's avatar

Appreciate it, Ben!!

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Fernando Trueba's avatar

Amazing teardown 🚀! We struggled with fake accounts on our free plan as well.

Couldn't agree more, one of the downsides of this is how hard it gets to read through the data to understand what drives conversion, activation, and retention.

We will definitely check Verisoul as a potential solve for this 🙂

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Ilia Markov's avatar

I’ve a case where a bot farm was creating fake accounts to send fake invites with a link using the email template to make it use legitimate…

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