Moiz Ali talking with Sam Parr on My First Million:
Candidly like, you know, Native was a $50 million dollar e-commerce business built on WordPress.
And the reason we did WordPress was because it was way cheaper, and because it allowed us a lot more customization:
- We could do post-purchase pop-ups, and add-to-cart pop-ups at a time where you couldn’t on Shopify.
- We could do subscriptions that didn’t charge us, you know, an arm and a leg to add subscriptions that you still can’t do on Shopify.
- We could have our own servers which, you know, you may or may not want based on Shopify.
- We could do instantaneous page loading which you couldn’t do on Shopify.
And so there were a lot of benefits for business because it [Wordpress] was open source, versus Shopify.
More from Moiz @ min 36:45:
We did a post-purchase pop-up in Native which was, after you clicked check out, we served you a pop-up saying, ‘Buy travel sized deodorant.’
We probably sold $700,000 of those travel size deodorants every single month, and made, you know, $400,000 in net profit off those travel size deodorants.
And we could only do that in WordPress. We could not do that in Shopify.
WordPress, guys. WordPress.
— Tang
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