Sam Lambert, CEO of PlanetScale: dropping the free tier was a great decision
About this episode
Sam Lambert is the CEO of PlanetScale - a cloud database provider.
Sam shares:
- Why dropping the free tier was one of PlanetScale's best decisions. But is not for every startup.
- People solving serious problems appreciate serious content and if you can create meaningful content, that's a big advantage.
- CEOs should be transparent and collaborative but assertive. Don't let your company die while enacting someone else's decision
- Express hard-to-convey-benefits via your customers’ experiences
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Links:
- Sam's Twitter
- Sam's LinkedIn
- PlanetScale
- PlanetScale Postgres
- Caching blog post
- Ted Nyman
- Snowflake
- Vitess
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