pricing

9 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 2 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Dec 8, 2022 by Madhavan Ramanujam · across every show →

Everything said about pricing, oldest first

Dec 8, 2022 negative
Insight
Testing product-market fit without pricing validation produces false positives
“If you didn't put pricing as part of your product market fit validation, you're often hearing what you want to hear. It is truly about understanding whether, you know, customers are willing to pay for your innovation and willingness to pay is a proxy for do pe…”
Madhavan Ramanujam Dec 8, 2022 ▶ 12:38 The art and science of pricing | Madhavan Ramanujam (Monetizing Innovation, Simon-Kucher)
Jan 12, 2023 positive
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Product pricing should never be static
“When your product development work is never done, neither is your pricing, and you need to combat that along the way.”
Naomi Ionita Jan 12, 2023 ▶ 9:37 How to price your product | Naomi Ionita (Menlo Ventures)
Feb 2, 2023
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Pricing isn't a trapdoor decision because existing users can be grandfathered
“I think a lot of people, for example, think pricing is a trapdoor decision, but actually like it's really easy to grandfather your existing users into some existing pricing model and change pricing for future users.”
Eeke de Milliano Feb 2, 2023 ▶ 16:23 How to foster innovation and big thinking | Eeke de Milliano (Retool, Stripe)
Feb 19, 2023 neutral
Assertion Partly supported
Campbell: Most companies only change pricing every three years
“Most companies don't change their actual number that they're charging once, but every three years.”
Patrick Campbell Feb 19, 2023 ▶ 23:19 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
Feb 19, 2023 positive
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Campbell: Companies with NPS over 20 should raise prices annually
“You should be increasing your overall price once per year. If you're building, if you're not building and your support sucks and your NPS is low, then, you know, don't worry about it. But if your NPS is over 20, which is not a very high NPS, you should raise y…”
Patrick Campbell Feb 19, 2023 ▶ 22:40 10 lessons on bootstrapping a $200m business | Patrick Campbell (ProfitWell)
Apr 2, 2023 negative
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Qu: Requiring custom sales quotes breaks self-serve PLG checkout flows
“Your pricing need to be relatively simple. If your pricing is super complicated, they need to, whenever they, for example, they try the product and they love it, they have a sales checkout flow, but in order to decide how much they need to pay, they need to se…”
Hila Qu Apr 2, 2023 ▶ 23:23 The ultimate guide to adding a PLG motion | Hila Qu (Reforge, GitLab)
Oct 26, 2023
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Adams: Aligning SaaS Pricing to Value Is Deceptively Difficult
“Pricing is, like, deceptively difficult. We had a principle around, like, aligning price to value. You know, people should pay based on the amount of value they get in the product. Easy to say and incredibly hard to do. Value is subjective.”
Paul Adams Oct 26, 2023 ▶ 52:31 What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
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Abel: Enterprise software pricing should scale with sales cycle length
“Your price should be predicated on your sales cycle, right? Like if you can get a deal done in 90 days for a hundred K, do that all the time. Right. If it takes nine months to get a deal done, you've got, you probably should be charging two 5300.”
Jen Abel Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 59:37 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abel
Aug 23, 2026 neutral
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Abel: Enterprise sales reps should delay pricing conversations until post-demo
“Try to hold out on talking about pricing until post demo, because you might, they might assume, oh, this is three times what I'm spending and not know why it's three times.”
Jen Abel Aug 23, 2026 ▶ 55:26 84 minutes of enterprise sales alpha | Jen Abel
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