Budman: Backblaze consumer customer lifetime value is roughly $400
Gleb Budman · 1204 $30m ARR Cloud Backup Company Almost Bankrupt from Thailand Floods · Nov 10, 2018 · at 14:33
Backblaze CEO Gleb Budman discusses unit economics and lifetime value calculations with host Nathan Latka.
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“So in, in rough numbers, a consumer is worth about 400 dollars in lifetime revenue to us.”
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