Santalo: A $25/month freemium SaaS model requires tens of millions in VC
Albert Santalo · 8base is a next generation backend-as-a-service for powering SaaS and other go-to-market applications. · Sep 11, 2020 · at 15:15
Albert Santalo, founder and CEO of 8base, discusses the unit economics and capital requirements of a low-cost freemium developer tool pricing model.
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“It's not a free trial at 25 bucks a month. You're just not going to get there without 10 tens of million dollars of venture money.”
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