Jelte Liebrand walked away from a VC term sheet, then turned his app's own users into 2,500 investors — and his first piece of advice to founders considering the same path is "don't raise at all."
Yuliya Lennox spent a decade scaling apps—and learned that a campaign making $20 per acquired user can be the clearest sign its creative is not good enough.
The business case for dropping support for earlier iOS versions
Andrew Maguire helped scale two App of the Year winners and now invests in consumer apps at Volo Ventures — and he's telling founders the best path to $10 million is to never raise a dollar of venture capital.
Nancy Anderson built a pre and postnatal fitness app to over a million users without lead magnets, a free trial, or a growth metric that could explain why it worked.
Is your freemium tier just a trial in disguise?
Giordano Contestabile ran a test that showed degrading Life360's free tier would drive massive revenue — and then the executive team yelled at him for even suggesting it.
Moving from a hard paywall to freemium is like switching from checkers to chess
Kenneth Schlenker dropped Opal’s paid conversion rate from 20% to 9% — and it resulted in an explosion of daily active users and compounding revenue.
On the podcast: how AI can turn your onboarding from a chore into magic, hyper-personalized experiences that drive both retention and revenue, and why your value-to-noise ratio matters more than how many features you ship.
Why your Russian subscriptions are about to churn
On the podcast: the product-driven growth loop behind the #1 VPN app in the world, why they intentionally leave money on the table, and how the prettiest design often loses in their A/B tests.
