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Jan 2021
54m 47s

Building a Lean Growth Machine for the W...

David Barnard, Jacob Eiting
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Darius Mora is the Chief Marketing Officer at Reflectly, the world’s largest journaling app. He’s been focused on ASO, free marketing, paid user acquisition, and retention for both Android and iOS apps. In this episode, you’ll hear about: (2:58) How Darius joined Reflectly. (4:48) How Reflectly added subscriptions and grew to 12 million users. (13:40) 3 ... Show More
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