B2C

“If you look at the YC splits right now when I was working with YC when I was at AWS compared to now, the ratio of B to B versus B to C has skyrocketed. Like there's just not as many B to C companies in these incubators getting built.”

“90% of consumers are pretty easy to handle. And then 10% of consumers absolutely obliterate your efficiency and nearly shut you down.”

“I believe that my journey is an example of what an otherworldly event you need to happen to actually help you win in that space as a bootstrapped founder.”

“Because if you're like a hundred million dollar B to C company, like everyone in America knows who you're at, who you are. If you're a hundred million dollar, like B to B company, no one knows who you are.”

“Subscription fatigue will continue to be a thing in B to C, but it will not be a big deal with B to B.”

“You're like struggling so hard to get people to pay like five dollars a month for an app. Meanwhile, businesses could be like, 40 dollars a month easily for like a SaaS thing or whatnot. Which also makes it really hard to get past that first, like a hundred MR…”

“So the B to C stuff, that just feels, that's, that seems far, far more random.”

“B to C is often very much a leading indicator for B to B.”

“In B to C product, when you think about Facebook, when you think about a lot of the products you use every day as an end consumer, it's always by default product-led growth because there's no sales team email. The LTV of the product doesn't support that.”

“I generally believe that it's easier to build a B to B business than a B to C business. I generally believe that getting businesses to pay for things is easier than consumers.”

“And so that's the one thing about B to B that I think is beautiful is you can just get on the phone and start pitching people. You see their reactions, you get their feedback. It's in some ways it's way easier than B to C.”

“Like B to C is always on the edge, and we kind of never do it because the churn's too high and the price point's too low.”

“B to B. The data situation is in general, much worse. I would say B to B is almost like kindergarten level. If B to C is third grade level in terms of data foundation.”

“All of the other companies started as B to C. They focused a lot on B to C. They saw our success in B to B, and then they kind of had a double strategy of doing B to C and B to B at the same time. And I think that one of the reasons why we were successful in b…”

“Some people, they ask me, hey, like, I don't know, is Product Hunt, like, Do B to B companies do well there? And I'm like, yeah, like probably more B to B companies than B to C companies actually.”

“Like, I just am so bullish on B to B and really bearish on B to C. Not only because I've owned, I think, two or three products or companies, one was an e-com site, that served consumers, but because every B to C company, specifically a subscription company tha…”

“In B to B business, you're just probably restricted to either running a cash flow business, Or a very technologically differentiated business versus a B to C where there are 10 or 15, 20 things that you can do to create anything anywhere.”

“BTC ones need a lot more capital to play out, which means that the founders themselves need to first understand that. And understand that fundraising is a, is not a seasonal job. It's an everyday job. I mean, you've got to be constantly fundraising in some of …”

“I think on Andy hackers, we did an analysis like a year ago and our product directory, we have like thousands of people's products with the revenue numbers. The ones that were B to B were making on average four times more revenue. And the ones that were B to C…”

“If you look at the verticals, it's definitely, we have a lot of clients that are B to C. So like anything in auto as well, real estate, you know, those, and those are all B to C companies. They're not B to B. B to B is actually not a very strong vertical for u…”