“today my guest is Naomi ayanida Naomi was one of the first early leaders in product light growth and monetization”
Naomi Ionita
Naomi was one of the first early leaders in product light growth and monetization having built early teams and infrastructure over a decade ago at Evernote
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“so I'm a partner in Menlo Ventures I focus on early stage SAS from seed to series B”
Frameworks in these episodes
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Day One vs Day 100 Feature Packaging
Free the features that create the aha moment; monetize the features whose value only emerges at scale.
Enterprise Price-Ceiling Discovery
Keep asking for more until deals break; losing 20-30% to price is how you find the ceiling.
Match Price to Value with a Value Metric
Pick the unit of value your customer gets, then charge against it so revenue scales as usage grows.
Price Your Product Like Your Roadmap
Treat pricing as a living system revisited every 6-12 months, not a set-and-forget decision.
The Cross-Functional Pricing Process
Stand up a pricing committee, mine demand and willingness-to-pay with structured surveys, then set price.
Resources in their episodes
- Amazon Redshift
- Amplitude
- Apple
- Apple Podcasts
- Calendly
- Census
- dbt
- Dropbox
- Endgame
- Eppo
- Evernote
- Figma
- Gas
- Hightouch
- IDEO
- Lenny's Podcast website
- Linear
- Loom
- Menlo Ventures website
- Metronome
- Miro
- Mixpanel
- Monetizing Innovation
- Netflix
- Notion
- OpenView
- Optimizely
- Orb
- Pocus
- ProfitWell
- Reforge
- Segment
- Simon-Kucher
- Slack
- Snowflake
- Spotify
- Stanford d.school
- StoryBots
- TikTok
- Vanta
- Xero
- YouTube
- Zuora
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