Miro initially required a five-user minimum to ensure teams experienced full value
Akshay Sharma · How to Leverage Pricing and Packaging to Drive Revenue with Miro, Loom, OpenAI, and Splunk · Dec 3, 2024 · at 5:03
Akshay Sharma, Head of Pricing and Monetization at Miro, explains historical packaging decisions at Miro.
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“When Miro was an early product, the outcome that we are trying to achieve was make sure the users love the product. And they figured out that user love happens when a lot of people come together on the Miro board and collaborate. That's when users get enough value. And so the first choice that was made was minimum five users in a paid plan.”
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