It seems like the title of this post doesn't quite agree with the example given. The company started charging for their version 1, but they already had a not-i

It seems like the title of this post doesn't quite agree with the example given. The company started charging for their version 1, but they already had a not-insignificant user base of 1000 people that seemed to like the product. It's possible that their growth might have been a lot slower if they had literally charged from day one; of course, it's also possible that this would not have been the case. Either way, I think that people's hesitance to charge for their products is probably more often motivated by the fear of slow/non-existent growth rather than the fear of coming across as a sell-out.