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It's not about how much you charge, it's about how good your business is. I am far more confident about gmail's long term prospects than their paid competitors
by s17n 9y ago
It's not about how much you charge, it's about how good your business is. I am far more confident about gmail's long term prospects than their paid competitors', for example.
- yeukhon 9y agoWell, this is a great point. Gmail eventually grew into a B2B-B2C model. Users get a reliable mail service with a nice interface, Google gets ads revenue, and then Google sell business Gsuite. There is a trio-business relationship, hence why I think it's a B2B-B2C. We can cite Facebook, Yelp, LinkedIn as similar examples. I guess startups that provide utilities (I can't figure out a better word, but think Github/Gitlab/CircleCI) should charge as early as possible, whereas startups focus on user contents can remain free for a long period of time, and then think about how to get users to pay (think of Tumblr's paid themes, although really unsuccessful from my perspective). Everyone takes a different path and some just won't last no matter which approach to take.