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2722 dispatches from hundreds of founders, pulled from the week's best podcasts.
If you give away 30 days of free AI feature usage and you have whales racking up massive compute costs without paying you a dime and then they churn — that's not a sustainable business.
Shorten free trials for AI apps — whales consuming free compute without converting are not sustainable
RevenueCat data shows most apps trending toward shorter trials despite 14-30 day trials outperforming on conversion. Carter believes AI apps are the primary driver — unlimited AI feature access for 30 days is economically untenable at scale. He suspects if you segmented the data by AI vs non-AI apps, the trend would be even more pronounced. Pair shorter trials with strong paywall placement to convert users before they burn through free AI compute budget.
kind of seeing break even as like this equilibrium that you're comfortable kind of like diverging from but then you know you're going to rotate back to versus like when it becomes a capital dependency
Treat break-even as the equilibrium to rotate back to
The healthy mental model for a bootstrapped founder: profitability is the resting state. Raising or spending below break-even is fine as a temporary move when a clear inflection is visible — but only if there's a credible path back to making more than is spent. Avoid the trap of needing more money to burn more money.
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