“Mavan is the smartest person I know on pricing and monetization strategy.”
Madhavan Ramanujam
madhavan is the author of monetizing innovation the most widely read book on pricing strategy he's also senior partner at Simon Kutcher and partners
2 episodes · 3 sourced appearances
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“today my guest is madhavan ramanujam”
“we wrote monetizing Innovation because increasingly you know we were working with companies more early stage”
Frameworks in these episodes
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Beautifully Simple Pricing
In your early days, price so a customer can repeat it back and it tells a value story.
Behavioral Pricing: Compromise, Decoy and Framing
Raise revenue 30%+ by reframing tiers and framing prices — without touching the product.
How You Charge Beats How Much: Pricing-Model Design
Pick the monetization model, then the price metric, then the structure — the number comes last.
Leaders, Fillers and Killers
Sort every feature into leader, filler or killer to configure packages that unlock segments.
Mastering B2B Negotiations Through Value
Extract full value from every deal via gives-and-gets, value selling, and disciplined negotiation tactics.
Price Before Product: The Willingness-to-Pay Conversation
Have the pricing conversation months before launch and use it to prioritize what you build.
Productize to Segments (the 'You Can Act Differently' Test)
Segments are defined by needs and willingness to pay — and only count if you can act differently on them.
Stop Churn Before It Happens
To stop churn, acquire customers who won't leave — churn is an acquisition problem, not a save problem.
The 20/80 Willingness-to-Pay Axiom
20% of what you build drives 80% of willingness to pay — and it's usually the easiest 20% to build.
The Acceptable / Expensive / Prohibitively Expensive Price Ladder
Three questions that reveal both a price range and the psychological cliffs you must hide behind.
The Attribution-Autonomy Pricing Matrix
Pick your AI pricing model by plotting value attribution against product autonomy, then climb toward outcome-based.
The Break-Even Indifference Test
Offer economically identical pricing models and see which one people irrationally prefer.
The Downturn Pricing Playbook (Never Drop the Price)
Three moves that protect price integrity in a recession: de-feature, non-pricing actions, change the model.
The Panini Effect
Show your product line as an unfinished puzzle and attach rates jump from 20% to 40-50%.
The POC as Business Case
Frame every pilot as co-creating an ROI model, charge for it smartly, and never anchor the commercial deal.
The Two-Engine Profitable Growth Architect
Master market share and wallet share together — equal attention, not equal effort — to avoid the single-engine trap.
Resources in their episodes
- Amazon
- Andreessen Horowitz
- Apple
- Apple Podcasts
- AWS
- Business Model Generation
- Canva
- Confessions of the Pricing Man
- Cursor
- DORA
- DX
- Enterpret
- Eventbrite
- Fin
- First Round Review
- GitHub
- Gong
- HubSpot
- Intercom
- iPhone
- Lean Startup
- Lemon.io
- Lenny's Newsletter
- Lenny's Podcast
- Lennybot
- Liquid Death
- Miro
- Mixpanel
- Monetizing Innovation
- Netflix
- Notion
- OpenView
- Perplexity
- Persona
- Predictably Irrational
- Scaling Innovation
- Segment
- Shopify
- Sierra
- Simon-Kucher
- Slack
- Snowflake
- SPACE Framework
- Spotify
- Stanford Graduate School of Business
- Superhuman
- The Matrix
- Twilio
- Uber
- Zendesk
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