{"id":81467,"date":"2026-07-30T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/?p=81467"},"modified":"2026-07-29T13:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T17:52:48","slug":"google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/","title":{"rendered":"Der \u201eVitamix-Typ\u201c baute ein Imperium auf Google-Traffic auf. Dann schuf er etwas, an das Google nicht herankam."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><html><body><p><em>For a decade, Lenny Gale was \u201cthe Vitamix guy\u201d \u2013 the internet\u2019s most trusted source on whether a $500 blender was worth it. Then Google\u2019s algorithm changed overnight, and he and his wife Shalva had to build something that didn\u2019t depend on a search result to survive.<\/em><\/p><div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_82_2 ez-toc-wrap-center counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a6b9cfed05f2\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">WAS IST INNEN<\/p>\n<span class=\"ez-toc-cssicon\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Umschalten auf<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #000000;color:#000000\" 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href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#From_Egg_White_Smoothies_to_%E2%80%9CThe_Vitamix_Guy%E2%80%9D\" >From Egg White Smoothies to \u201cThe Vitamix Guy\u201d<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-3\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#Why_Blending_for_Good_Walked_Away_From_Google_Search_Traffic\" >Why Blending for Good Walked Away From Google Search Traffic<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-4\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#How_a_Premium_Membership_Protects_a_Business_From_a_Google_Update\" >How a Premium Membership Protects a Business From a Google Update<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-5\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#How_Blending_for_Good_Built_Its_Membership_With_MemberPress\" >How Blending for Good Built Its Membership With MemberPress<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-6\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#What_Blending_for_Good_Is_Still_Figuring_Out\" >What Blending for Good Is Still Figuring Out<\/a><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-7\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#The_Philosophy_Put_Value_Out_Get_Value_Back\" >The Philosophy Put Value Out, Get Value Back<\/a><ul class='ez-toc-list-level-3' ><li class='ez-toc-heading-level-3'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-8\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#Building_Something_Google_Cant_Touch\" >Building Something Google Can\u2019t Touch<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-2'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-9\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/google-proof-case-study-blending-for-good\/#Where_to_find_Blending_for_Good\" >Where to find Blending for Good<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p>Somewhere between five and ten million households in America own a Vitamix.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny and Shalva Gale\u2019s entire business is built on a simple, slightly uncomfortable observation about most of them: <strong>they\u2019re not using it.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That\u2019s the whole premise behind <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blendingforgood.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Blending For Good<\/a><\/strong>, the Minneapolis-based company Lenny and Shalva run \u2013 an authorized Vitamix dealer with a paid membership on top.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s built to turn \u201cI really should use this thing more\u201d into an <strong>actual daily habit<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The membership launched six months ago, runs on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/\" title=\"\">MemberPress<\/a><\/strong>, and already has real members going through a weekly recipe drop and a jump-start course designed to build the habit in a week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It works. But it took the Gales <strong>fifteen years<\/strong>, one full rebrand, and a brutal industry-wide traffic collapse to get here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Watch_the_Full_Interview\"><\/span>Watch the Full Interview<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"d0aQ1LejRIhUV7xZmpyrFcvftJ5YiC5YozZcIOCRNKGXkBfX6iMFE7k2su4W3PbADr\"><div class=\"responsive-video\"><iframe title=\"How This Vitamix Blog Survived Google Killing Its Traffic (@blendingforgood)\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_BS9u8_gDIk?feature=oembed&enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div><\/span>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">WATCH How This Vitamix Blog Survived Google Killing Its Traffic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">From Egg White Smoothies to \u201cThe Vitamix Guy\u201d<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny didn\u2019t set out to sell blenders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He was a traveling consultant with an accounting degree, working for one of the big firms, and he hated it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cI didn\u2019t find any intrinsic value in helping CEOs and shareholders make more money,\u201d<\/strong> he says. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>So he decided to make health and wellness his job instead<\/strong>, without knowing exactly what that meant yet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first idea was <strong>egg whites<\/strong>. Lenny built a blog called <em>Life Is No Yolk<\/em> around the idea that pasteurized carton egg whites (pure protein, no fat, no cholesterol) could be the small, doable change that got people eating better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/setting-up-wordpress-for-a-food-and-recipe-site\/\" title=\"\">He taught himself WordPress<\/a> in corporate meetings and started documenting his own health journey: smoothie recipes, articles on why sugar is addictive, a piece on Dr. Oz, a surprisingly popular page on how to cook ahi tuna steak from Trader Joe\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was kind of just documenting my journey in health and wellness, figuring out the food for myself,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Then he noticed something. <strong>The egg whites weren\u2019t the story. The machine was.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"<strong>This machine, the Vitamix,<\/strong> is actually the difference maker,\u201d he says. \u201cAnd the next thing I knew, <strong>I was the Vitamix guy.<\/strong>\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The push to monetize it came from a stranger on a plane. Sitting in the Denver airport after a flight, Lenny mentioned he was trying to figure out how to make money from the blog \u2013 maybe sell egg whites, maybe sign up for Vitamix\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/prettylinks.com\/blog\/affiliate-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">affiliate program.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The guy next to him asked what the commission was. \u201cFifteen percent or whatever,\u201d Lenny said. \u201cAnd how much are they?\u201d \u201cFour or five hundred bucks.\u201d \u201cDo that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny called Vitamix, told them he\u2019d be their <strong>biggest affiliate partner<\/strong>, and spent the next decade proving it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He built<strong> Life Is No Yolk<\/strong> into a niche authority site that answered the exact questions people type into Google before buying: is a Vitamix worth it, which one should I get, Vitamix versus Ninja, how do I actually use this thing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Why_Blending_for_Good_Walked_Away_From_Google_Search_Traffic\"><\/span>Why Blending for Good Walked Away From Google Search Traffic<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Two things broke the old model, back to back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The first was <strong>structural<\/strong>. Vitamix affiliate commissions are attribution-based \u2013 you only get paid if your link was the last one clicked before a purchase. As coupon sites proliferated, Lenny\u2019s referred sales kept getting credited to someone else\u2019s link instead of his.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fix was to stop being an affiliate and become an actual <strong>authorized dealer<\/strong> \u2013 a small, independent shop that somehow earned a place alongside Williams Sonoma and Crate & Barrel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t by accident,\u201d Lenny says. \u201cWe\u2019ve been the most dedicated, loyal partner in service of this company for over a decade.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The second was existential. <strong>Between 2023 and 2024, Google\u2019s Helpful Content updates gutted exactly the kind of site Life Is No Yolk was<\/strong> \u2013 helpful, niche, and built for search.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis was before search results became just an AI, zero-click answer thing,\u201d Lenny says. Ninety percent of his traffic had come from Google. It didn\u2019t anymore, and it never came back.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"692\" src=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-1024x692.png\" alt=\"Quote by Lenny Gale: 'We felt like we needed to create something that transcended search\u2014zero reliance on Google whatsoever.'\" class=\"wp-image-81477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-1024x692.png 1024w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-300x203.png 300w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-768x519.png 768w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-50x34.png 50w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-252x170.png 252w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-840x568.png 840w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-1012x684.png 1012w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-700x473.png 700w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-156x105.png 156w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site-1080x730.png 1080w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Lenny-Gale-Quote-Google-Proof-Site.png 1480w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The final piece clicked into place at a book club. Shalva was talking with a group of friends about their Vitamixes, and six women in the room had one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cZero of them felt like they actually used it,\u201d Lenny says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After a decade spent convincing people a Vitamix was worth buying, that was the moment the Gales realized the mission had changed. The new job wasn\u2019t to sell more blenders. It was to get the ones already sitting in cabinets used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_a_Premium_Membership_Protects_a_Business_From_a_Google_Update\"><\/span>How a Premium Membership Protects a Business From a Google Update<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny\u2019s story is a real-world version of an argument we\u2019ve made before: <strong>a premium membership is one of the best defenses a website has against losing everything to a single algorithm change.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We wrote about this at length in <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/the-secret-to-protecting-your-wordpress-website-from-google-algorithm-updates\/\">Das Geheimnis zum Schutz Ihrer WordPress-Website vor Google Algorithmus-Updates<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If a large share of your traffic and revenue depends on Google ranking you well, you\u2019re <strong>one update away from a bad quarter<\/strong>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Giving people a reason to come back to you directly, by name, whether or not Google sends them your way, is what protects against that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/faqs-for-starting-a-membership-site\/\" title=\"\">A membership<\/a> does exactly this. It turns casual, search-driven visitors into people who show up on purpose \u2013 people who type your name into a browser bar instead of a search <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/go\/box\/\" title=\"Box Affiliate-Link\" class=\"pretty-link-keyword\"rel=\"nofollow \" target=\"_blank\">Box<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blending For Good is living proof: <strong>well over half of the site\u2019s traffic now comes from YouTube<\/strong>, either directly from a video or from someone finding the Gales there and typing the URL in afterward.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of that traffic can be wiped out by a Google update, because none of it depends on Google in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWe felt like we needed to create something that transcended search \u2013 that would have zero reliance on Google whatsoever,\u201d Lenny says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A paid membership, backed by an audience the Gales already owned, is what let them actually build that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"How_Blending_for_Good_Built_Its_Membership_With_MemberPress\"><\/span>How Blending for Good Built Its Membership With MemberPress<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The membership centers on two things: a <strong>jump-start course<\/strong> that runs over the first week, and a weekly <strong>\u201ctasting menu\u201d<\/strong>,<a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/monetize-food-blog\/\" title=\"\"> a curated set of recipes<\/a> organized not by food type but by the actual problem someone\u2019s trying to solve, like something to bring to a potluck or a dinner that doesn\u2019t require thinking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lenny wanted the course to feel less like a locked video library and more like getting a note from a friend, one topic at a time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/docs\/dripping-and-expiring-content\/\" title=\"\">MemberPress\u2019s Drip Content feature<\/a>, paired with its <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/docs\/email-marketing-addons-by-memberpress-edition\/\" title=\"\">email marketing integration<\/a>s, is built to create exactly that experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Set up a course once, then release it lesson by lesson on a schedule, paired with an email integration like <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/go\/activecamp\/landing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" title=\"\">ActiveCampaign<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/go\/constant\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" title=\"\">St\u00e4ndiger Kontakt<\/a>, oder <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/go\/convertkit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow sponsored\" title=\"\">Bausatz<\/a> \u2013 so each new lesson lands directly in a member\u2019s inbox instead of waiting for them to log in and go looking for it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"744\" src=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-1024x744.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-51817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-1024x744.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-300x218.jpg 300w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-768x558.jpg 768w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-234x170.jpg 234w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-840x610.jpg 840w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-941x684.jpg 941w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-700x509.jpg 700w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-156x113.jpg 156w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1-1080x785.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/memberpress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ContentDrippingOfLessonsMemberPress-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blending For Good\u2019s Jumpstart course still includes video for the topics that need it \u2013 Lenny mentions a green juice lesson with a video walkthrough. It\u2019s just delivered at a cadence he wanted, rather than dumped all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe people we serve don\u2019t necessarily have two and a half hours to sit down and absorb what you want to give them,\u201d Lenny says. \u201cIt\u2019s simple, but the feeling behind it, I think, is more effective \u2013 and maybe even more valuable \u2013 than a firehose of content dumped on you all at once.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re writing an email. It\u2019s friends writing an email to friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The rest of the build leans on a handful of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/addons\/\">MemberPress-Erweiterungen<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/docs\/memberpress-gifting-add-on\/\" title=\"\">Die <strong>Verschenken<\/strong> Add-on<\/a> lets members buy a subscription for a friend \u2013 the site\u2019s top membership tier even comes with two gift memberships built in.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Content access runs on a simple tagging system built with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/docs\/rules-overview\/\" title=\"\">MemberPress\u2019s access rules<\/a><\/strong>: every recipe is locked by default except the ones tagged \u201cfree,\u201d a small set the Gales built their early reputation on and don\u2019t want to take away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When a non-member lands on one of those, <strong>the page tells them plainly<\/strong> it\u2019s a gift from Blending For Good \u2013 a deliberate bit of goodwill baked directly into the access logic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"block-mp-button-wrap\">\n\t<a id=\"button-block_61629292fc64027769d19760ba172180\" href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/how-to-create-a-food-and-recipe-website\/\" class=\"button button-blue center\">READ Wie man eine Website f\u00fcr Lebensmittel und Rezepte erstellt<\/a>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Recipes themselves run through <a href=\"https:\/\/memberpress.com\/de\/blog\/setting-up-wordpress-for-a-food-and-recipe-site\/\">WP Recipe Maker<\/a>, which Lenny speeds up with an unusual trick: he has <strong>Claude<\/strong> convert a recipe\u2019s ingredients and method into the plugin\u2019s JSON import format, turning what used to be an hour of manual field-filling into a copy-paste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He used the same approach to build a custom shop page for browsing Vitamix models. \u201cI don\u2019t think our developers even know that I did that,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"What_Blending_for_Good_Is_Still_Figuring_Out\"><\/span>What Blending for Good Is Still Figuring Out<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Six months in, Lenny is candid about how much is still being built out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The gifting flows aren\u2019t fully set up yet. 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