Loiacono: Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Adjust Drug Prices Only in January and July
“So on the manufacturing side, we change price twice a year. You could set a clock to it, January and July.”
High frontier AI model prices are driving the plateau in adoption
“And to me, the only explanation has to be price, right? Like it's just too expensive to use the frontier models.”
Peter Fenton: Investment price is the litmus test for conviction
“I remember he told me that price is a litmus test for your conviction.”
Taneja: VCs blame price when they actually lack investment conviction
“So if it's, if money's all made and what's better than we thought, like, you know, using price to pass, I tell you people, investors use price as a reason to pass because they couldn't gain conviction elsewhere. And it still makes them sound pragmatic.”
Casado: Strong venture returns suggest startup entry prices are too low
“The fact that we get the returns we do suggests the prices are too low.”
Weisbrot: Raising prices is much easier than lowering costs
“It's much easier to raise your price than to lower your cost.”
Weisbrot: Businesses should raise prices until customers say no
“Keep raising your prices until people say no.”
Piper: Capacity incentive prices can only go up across US power markets
“If you think about reducing those assessments of reliability contribution, but increasing your planning reserve targets, you're saying, well, we want more, but what generators bring is less then You know, it's a very strong signal to bring new generation to ma…”
Deng: Uber's actual product was price and ETA, not app pixels
“Really like the price and the ETA at Uber was the product.”
Bartlett: LP prisoner's dilemma keeps private startup prices elevated
“Now we're at this prisoner's dilemma where it would be theoretically a great time for everyone to lean in if other people backed out because then prices would depress, but everyone's staying in. And so it's actually leading to prices staying elevated”
98% of hotel customers care only about getting the best price
“98% of customers, all they care about, the only thing they care about is getting the best price, right?”
Plank: Scaling companies fail to raise prices until finding friction
“The big mistake that people make as they transition to the next phase is people don't increase price into a point where they find friction.”
Khosrowshahi: Year-over-year Uber ride prices are down as supply outpaces demand
“Now, in this environment, where we are adding supply faster than demand because the supply is really coming into the marketplace, prices in Uber now, year on year, are down.”
Beshore: Lower purchase multiples give buyers the luxury of time
“If you pay a ton for a business, the expectations are sky high. You've got to start doing a lot of things to generate that return. If you pay a little bit less expectations can be lower and you can take your time.”
Stebbings: Do not lose the ideal investor over valuation
“If the chosen partner is slightly lower, just take it. Do not lose the right partner because of a small percentage difference. In price or size of round.”
Forman: Price is rarely a leading indicator of fundamental progress in crypto
“Price is rarely like a leading indicator for fundamental progress and traction.”
Friedberg: Consumable and durable goods prices rarely drop after inflating
“And you raise your prices. You're not often going back and dropping your prices again. And you know, you have to have a catch up effect. For income and savings to make up for the increment in pricing. And that's really, you know, a key driver right now that th…”
Kenneth Cole: Consumers buy value rather than price
“I don't think people buy price. They buy value, and people learned a long time ago, you pay a dollar for something, you never wear it, you pay too much.”
Chamath: Post-lockdown consumer spending and COVID stimulus will trigger inflation
“The scary thing about all of this is if any of that stuff actually comes to pass, we're going to see inflation. And the reason is because if you start going out and spending a bunch of money on tickets and vacations and flights and this and that and pumping mo…”
Market systems fail on vital issues that cannot have price mechanisms
“And the reason it's not true is because the market-based system for it to work, it needs prices. And the most important things that we could allocate attention to don't have prices, and more importantly, cannot have prices. There is no system that you could co…”
Yanowitz: Bitcoin will double if $400M monthly inflow continues post-halving
“If the, what if four hundred million continues to pump into the system, then should double the price.”
Viswanathan: Investors should lean in on price for elite founders
“What I have learned in my career is don't be afraid to lean in more and more on price for the elite CEOs, elite founders, and elite companies.”
Consumer Travelers Only Care About Price, Not UI Speed or Design
“Consumer travelers only travel once or twice a year, and so they don't care about booking fast and having a nice UI. They only care about price.”