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Surprised that this post does not talk about one of the most successful referral programs I have seen (way before Dropbox): Paypal. I certainly made a bunch of

• TomGullen 4y ago
  I think Chrome when it first came out was giving $5 per install as well. You see similar rewards here in UK for referring people to new bank accounts, Chase made a big move over here and was giving £20 to the referrer, and £20 to the referred for minimum commitment. If you got the money it's a fast way to gobble up market share.
  • robk 4y ago
    Yep I ran the early Google referral programs where we paid a bounty to adsense pubs that originally were referring Firefox installs!
    • mandeepj 4y ago
      Does it necessarily have to be money? I know everybody likes cash. Dropbox ran a very successful referral program where they give double (I guess) the storage to both parties.
      • TomGullen 4y ago
        Doesn't have to be cash, but I think it's important to remember when Dropbox was doing it disc space was a lot more valuable - I don't think it would work as well nowadays.
      • thisisnotatest 4y ago
        Dropbox storage is the lead example in TFA ;-)