Lenny Distilled

Consumer subscription lacks B2B's natural advantages

Growth → Retention & Engagement

Consumer subscription just doesn't have any of these benefits. Consumers are way less predictable. They tend to retain worse than businesses, and they also don't have net dollar retention characteristics.

Casey Winters How to sell your ideas and rise within your company
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User retention is gold for consumer subscription companies. If you don't retain your users, then a lot of the onus is on getting them to pay on day one.

Albert Cheng Finding hidden growth opportunities in your product
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We call it internally the hamster wheel of content creation. You get on because you love it and then how do you get off.

Camille Hearst Monetizing passions, scaling marketplaces, and stories from a creator economy vet