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How to design a referral program

Andrew Chen

It’s said that the first documented referral program was created by Julius Caesar, who in 55 BC would paid his soldiers 300 sestertii (something like a third of their annual pay) to refer a friend to join the army. When do you ask the user to refer? Why do you refer? They also tend to decline in importance over time.