Well Facebook has "Facebook At Work" (https://work.fb.com/ https://work.fb.com/) that sort of accomplishes this, though at the moment they're not charging anyth

Well Facebook has "Facebook At Work" (https://work.fb.com/ https://work.fb.com/) that sort of accomplishes this, though at the moment they're not charging anything. Also, it's a bit of support/maintenance/overhead for something that doesn't have as much support as you might think - otherwise tools like Google Contributor would be blowing up. I imagine like ~1% of users would actually opt to pay, maybe 2 or 3%, based upon my experience with freemium business models at a few different companies. I think there's the hypothesis that these "pro subscribers" have higher incomes and are therefore better ripe for advertising demand. I would argue that Google has enough data and intelligence to internalize this hypothetical lifetime value from ad dollars into a reasonable price for a monthly subscription that would be roughly equivalent. If the counterpoint is that $7-10 / year doesn't quite equal how much Google could get for the same user through advertising (which could be substantially higher I think,) then it's hard to fault Sundar or Jack Dorsey or any other tech CEO in this space for going with what would provide better value to shareholders (which is ultimately their responsibility, for better or worse.)