Growth Hacking in Web3’s Wild West

The growth hacking movement evolved out of Silicon Valley in the late noughties.

Then, Airbnb pulled off perhaps the most infamous of all growth hacks — exploiting a vulnerability in Craigslist’s code to give hosts the option of re-posting Airbnb listings to Craiglist with one click, leveraging the latter’s traffic to fast-track Airbnb’s user growth.