The number one reason that customers don't like it or have an issue with it is the predictability issue. The other big one is obviously if you scale a lot, you pay a lot more money. And so then you have to get into smart volume based discounts basically. So people increasingly need to be treating pricing like a product and have a built in plan for how are you going to get feedback on your pricing construct.
Today’s episode is with Jeanne DeWitt Grosser, Head of Americas Revenue and Growth for Stripe, where she’s responsible for all sales functions and leads the company’s enterprise strategy. She joined Stripe after a career in sales at Google and also serving as Dialpad’s Chief Revenue Officer.
In today’s conversation, we dive super deep into all things pricing. To start, Jeanne outlines the trade-offs when it comes to usage-based pricing versus SaaS pricing, and how usage-based gets your company more closely aligned with the customer. She also debates the merits of hybrid or tiered pricing that Stripe has implemented and provides tips for other companies looking to go this route.
Next, she explains her philosophy of treating pricing like a product, and how this shows up in Stripe’s org design. Jeanne outlines some of the pricing experiments that have had the biggest impact on how the company does business, and her tips for getting a steady drumbeat of customer feedback.
To wrap up, she shares her advice for founders when it comes to treating pricing as an art and a science. If you’re in sales, or are a founder just starting to think about pricing your product, you won’t want to miss Jeanne’s insights she’s picked up over the course of her career. She’s got plenty of ideas for small startups and larger companies alike. Along the way, Jeanne provides plenty of examples from her time at Stripe to illustrate her playbook in action.
You can follow Jeanne on Twitter at @jdewitt29
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