Founder Playbook
Pricing
“we offer roadside assistance to our subscribers right we could not offer roadside assistance to free users because you know every time they they call it we pay for the toe... in some in other cases we think that every feature should be premium meaning that every feature... should be great in the free version”
Default features to free unless they have real marginal cost
Decision rule for new features: if it has hard variable cost per user (roadside assistance, GPS device service), it's a paid feature — users expect that. If it's software-only, build it free and great, then find net-new value to layer on top as paid. Avoid the artificial gate ("two for free, rest is paid") — that's the lazy version of freemium that customers can smell.
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Giordano Contestabile
Life360VP of Product at Life360 — ~100M MAU, ~3M paying circles (~12M people benefiting), ~$500M ARR, ~$4B market cap. Defending a generous freemium while protecting subscription growth.
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Protecting Freemium at 100M Users AND Driving $500M Revenue – Giordano Contestabile, Life360· 27:35