A SaaS founder riffs on why companies endlessly flip between seat-based and usage-based pricing, treating each switch like a magic fix. He also skewers the classic move of charging extra for SSO bundled into a vague "platform fee" as the mark of serious B2B pricing.
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So my joke was going to be my general philosophy on B2B pricing and packaging is that you will move from seats to usage-based in an infinite loop, and then you will die. Okay. That's the real real. And that you will charge a platform fee for an arbitrary set of features, and one of those arbitrary sets of features will be SSO. That is true pricing and packaging strategy for B2B. Very niche joke, but I think this is the audience for it. For it. Yep. That's the right place for that joke. I mean, it's just really funny. Like I advise companies, I do, and they're always, every company is like, oh, we used to be usage-based, but it was so dumb. So we moved to seat-based. And then somebody else is like, oh, we did seat-based. It was so dumb. So we're moving to usage-based. I find it very, very funny.