LTV

4 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Dec 13, 2017 by Des Traynor · across every show →

Everything said about LTV, oldest first

Dec 13, 2017 negative
Insight
Engineering-driven paid search rarely works as a deterministic growth engine
“The engineer's approach to marketing is, like, We're going to hire a marketer, and they're going to find the keywords that are CAC LTV positive. That is, the customer acquisition cost is less than the LTV, and we're going to dump all of our fifty million dolla…”
Des Traynor Dec 13, 2017 ▶ 14:07 Be Wary of Solving a Small, Rare Problem - Des Traynor of Intercom · Y Combinator
Apr 27, 2018 negative
Insight
Clean, minimalist mobile games struggle to generate high lifetime player values
“I think it's like difficult to create high LTV games with that style. Because I think you do want like passionate niche audiences, which can be large, but they want like to sort of gravitate around a sort of certain theme or something like that. If they're goi…”
Patrick Moberg Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 8:12 Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
Apr 27, 2018 neutral
Insight
Mobile games require massive scale because player value barely exceeds install cost
“The LTV is almost like just a little bit higher than CPI. So like you're not making that much money on each acquisition. So like that's why you sort of need that big scale to like sort of Profit from that launch.”
Patrick Moberg Apr 27, 2018 ▶ 22:49 Gaming Studio Founders - Patrick Moberg and Holly Liu · Y Combinator
May 8, 2019 negative
Insight
Halligan: CAC and LTV metrics are unhelpful in a startup's first year
“And then later, we really got obsessed with cost to acquire a customer, and total lifetime value of customer, and what's the return on that cost to acquire a customer. That's not very helpful in your first year of a startup, though.”
Brian Halligan May 8, 2019 ▶ 39:49 HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
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