Free Tier
topic on 3 shows · 4 statements across 4 episodes
Lenny's Podcast 
the Official SaaStr Podcast 
A Product Market Fit Show
4 statements about Free Tier, every show
Goel: Delaying a free tier was a mistake that curtailed signups
“I mean, honestly, I made a mistake and I think we should have had a free tier sooner. Everyone else had a free tier. And we decided not to have one because we thought that we really wanted a certain kind of persona where people would come to us for real produc…”
Local compute avoids the abuse that ruins free tiers on cloud servers
“Cause the other problem, the server is like, you end up, if you have a free tier, people are mining Bitcoin on it. They're DDoS and people using your servers, right? So inevitably you have to nerf these things and roll them back, but if it's all done on the en…”
Eifrem: Perpetual free tiers are far superior to free trials in infrastructure
“A free peer is a lot more valuable than a free trial, right? And there, there's a lot of debate about this and every business is special, but for me personally, I come out very much in favor of a free peer. And if you look at some of the successful some of the…”