Parr: On Deck cannot scale without raising prices or diluting network
Sam Parr · How Course Businesses Work & How Irish Pubs as a Service is Making Millions | My First Million #183 · May 20, 2021 · at 19:52
Sam Parr and Sean Puri discuss whether On Deck's community- and networking-centric business model can scale to become a massive company.
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“Well, then in that case, I would say the likelihood that they're going to be quite huge, I think, is actually lower. It would actually be better if they were a course business, because the problem with that is they're either going to have to raise prices to be tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, or they're going to have to decrease the standards of who they let in and keep the price low and thus ruin their network.”
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