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looks legit to me. I've used to work in small startup with ~10 people. The owner was always happy to pay for tools to developer productivity. We did not subscr

by theamk 1y ago

looks legit to me. I've used to work in small startup with ~10 people. The owner was always happy to pay for tools to developer productivity. We did not subscribe to Coursera, but in the theoretical case we'd all want to, the pricing would be: 10 users, no SSO: $3999/year 10 users, with SSO: $49875/year It's an SSO tax, and a super hefty too. We'd probably balk at it and chose the less-secure option instead. And the fact that we'd get extra 116 licenses we had no need for is absolutely irrelevant, there is nothing we can do with it at all.

ralferoo 1y ago
Even in your example, and assuming that the only feature that the enterprise plan offers is SSO, that's not even close to a 12400% increase, that's a 1147% increase. My point was that saying the minimum order is 125 seats for enterprise, and so claiming that the price for a single seat is increase by 12400% is being deceptive. If you buy a six-pack of beer, you don't say "This is terrible! I only wanted one beer and this six-pack is a 500% increase in price!". If you only want one beer, you just buy the single beer and leave the six-pack on the shelf.
- theamk 1y ago
  If there is an option to buy a single beer on the shelf, sure. But in this case there is no such option. Imagine you _really_ wanted to try Foobar beer. So you get to beer distributor, and you find out that while each bottle is just $5, the minimum order is a crate of 144 bottles and they give no samples. In this case, you might say: "Yeah, I really wanted to try that beer but there is no way I am paying $720 for that". It's exactly the same here. (re 1147% vs 12400% - sure, maybe you could argue you should not look at a single license, but rather at a pack of 5 or 10 licenses... but this does not change numbers much for Coursera, it's still huge increase.)

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looks legit to me. I've used to work in small startup with ~10 people. The owner was always happy to pay for tools to developer productivity. We did not subscr

by theamk 1y ago

ralferoo 1y ago
Even in your example, and assuming that the only feature that the enterprise plan offers is SSO, that's not even close to a 12400% increase, that's a 1147% increase. My point was that saying the minimum order is 125 seats for enterprise, and so claiming that the price for a single seat is increase by 12400% is being deceptive. If you buy a six-pack of beer, you don't say "This is terrible! I only wanted one beer and this six-pack is a 500% increase in price!". If you only want one beer, you just buy the single beer and leave the six-pack on the shelf.
- theamk 1y ago
  If there is an option to buy a single beer on the shelf, sure. But in this case there is no such option. Imagine you _really_ wanted to try Foobar beer. So you get to beer distributor, and you find out that while each bottle is just $5, the minimum order is a crate of 144 bottles and they give no samples. In this case, you might say: "Yeah, I really wanted to try that beer but there is no way I am paying $720 for that". It's exactly the same here. (re 1147% vs 12400% - sure, maybe you could argue you should not look at a single license, but rather at a pack of 5 or 10 licenses... but this does not change numbers much for Coursera, it's still huge increase.)