Protect freemium growth from enterprise demands using structural resource isolation
Guy Podjarny · Fireside Chat: Guy Podjarny (Founder & President, Snyk) with Matt Turck (Partner, FirstMark) · Feb 17, 2021 · at 29:02
Guy Podjarny, founder and president of Snyk, discusses organizational scaling and managing competing priorities between enterprise buyers and freemium users.
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“It became hard for someone leading both the product that growth aside and the enterprise motion to say, no, no, no, I will put aside this like very large customer's requirement. And I will prioritize this sort of freemium user. Need instead of that. So you have to make that decision strategically and provide resource isolation so that you wouldn't steal resources. You wouldn't starve resources away from the freemium motion.”
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