what is the fine line between 'growth hacking' and fraud?

e.g, Reddit bootstrapped with many 'fake' users engaging with each other

building far.quest & @wieldlabs.eth. cofounder at miy.com ventures. FID #274. Previously Square/Cash App. https://hiimnico.xyz/

thinking of https://www.forbes.com/sites/alexandralevine/2023/01/11/jp-morgan-fake-customers-frank-charlie-javice/?sh=1f52d88b14d4, but many social apps did use similar strategy

disclosure is the word I was looking for!

following up farcaster://casts/0x27848c22f5f2f906fdd376839918c016382d47a78e2835d1aa03534adbf8557a/0x27848c22f5f2f906fdd376839918c016382d47a78e2835d1aa03534adbf8557a, raising $ without disclosure is 100% fraud

reddit didn't sell the company or raise capital while it only had fake users afaik.

_disclosures_ is the line? you cannot mislead when disclosing in any form of due diligence

Growth hacking is brute forcing growth through an underutilized channel. (Threads on Twitter, loops on TikTok) Then optimizing that viral loop to be as tight as possible.

Fraud is when you start lying about the real numbers.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/01/tesla-staged-2016-self-driving-demo-says-senior-autopilot-engineer/