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Milich: Skiff monetizes easily on storage because users expect linear pricing

Andrew Milich · Skiff is Privacy Focused Notion, Breaks $60m Valuation, 10k MAU's · May 15, 2022 · at 6:05

Andrew Milich, co-founder and CEO of privacy-focused workspace Skiff, discusses pricing strategy and consumer willingness to pay for cloud storage.

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“So one of the things we can monetize pretty easily is storage space. People are probably paying for storage space in their life already, whether it's on Google or it's on Dropbox or something else. And so that's something that's pretty common. Also it's, you know, it scales linearly with what you'd expect, like you pay for more storage and you get more storage for your files.”

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