Description

In this episode, we cover the topic we wanted to cover for the last few weeks but always ran out of time. It’s the topic of SaaS subscriptions. As a business that doesn’t yet make any revenue, we pay quite a bit in subscription fees because these days everything is a subscription. Apparently, soon we’ll be paying a subscription to heat our butts in cars — Arnab tells a story of a car manufacturer that will ship cars with all the hardware, but will disable “premium” features unless you pay a monthly fee. In this episode, we introduce our lovely Chief Dog Officer who often inserts a few soundbites into our podcast. Sometimes he takes a bite too. He’s a star employee and we love him. We covered a few other topics like how producing TikTok worthy content changes who you are and the crab emoji at Google that can be funny but also passive aggressive.

Chapters

• 00:38 - First annual Metacast all-hands
• 02:33 - Creating TikTok worthy content
• 05:58 - Active listening strikes back
• 08:05 - In-person recording setup
• 10:03 - Introducing our CDO, Chief Dog Officer
• 10:52 - Crab emoji at Google
• 12:09 - Reflection on the Jason Fried episode
• 15:45 - User research studies for our app
• 20:58 - The original name for our company
• 22:56 - The SaaS Subscriptions Pandemic
• 33:55 - Google vs. Amazon culture 👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/029-saas-subscription-pandemic 👉 Our book about starting a podcast: https://book.metacastpodcast.com/l/pragmatic-podcaster 👉 Metacast merch: https://merch.metacastpodcast.com We’re always happy to hear back from our listeners, so don’t hesitate to drop us a note at hello@metacastpodcast.com. Subscribe to our newsletter where we announce new episodes, publish key takeaways, and ramble about interesting stuff at https://www.metacastpodcast.com.

Show notes

Podcasts

• The Google Graveyard on Rework
• Are Bootstrapped Startups Less Valuable Than Venture-Funded Startups? on Startup Therapy

Gear

• Shure SM58

Software

• SquadCast
• Canva
• Riverside
• Descript
• Final Cut Pro
• Adobe Premiere
• iZotope RX
• Calendly

Articles

• BMW starts selling heated seat subscriptions for $18 a month

👉 Full show notes with links: https://www.metacastpodcast.com/p/029-saas-subscription-pandemic

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Get in touch

• Contact us: hello@metacastpodcast.com
• Ilya's LinkedIn
• Arnab's LinkedIn