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An incentive may not be required, but it definitely helps. For example: I joined PayPal 10 years ago because my friend coaxed me into it. PayPal paid me $5 f
by goodkarma 18y ago
An incentive may not be required, but it definitely helps.
For example: I joined PayPal 10 years ago because my friend coaxed me into it. PayPal paid me $5 for joining and paid my friend $5 for inviting me. We invited lots of people..
On the other hand, consider GMail. It was just so massively superior to anything else out there that as soon as I heard about it I was hooked. GMail was (and is) free, but back then people were actually paying for invites..
- whacked_new 18y agoThe incentive in the GMail case is still there. If you think your action makes a friend better off, then the action is valuable to you. Whether this act stems from intrinsic selfishness or benevolence, is left for another time :-) Anyway, I doubt anybody really thinks about this before coaxing their friends, but broadly speaking "so do I" holds true.