Stack Overflow founder Joel Spolsky explains his simple pricing strategy
A short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video in which Joel Spolsky (Stack Overflow founder) explains the site’s pricing for job listings. He states the job-ad price is $350 and describes a deliberate strategy of pricing slightly higher than competitors so buyers infer higher quality—using a hair-dryer shopping analogy to explain consumer perception of price as a quality signal.
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