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Comment by rsync

I find this part interesting - of the ~500,000 customers, 70,000 are B2 customers and 430,000 are "backup" customers ... which are flat-rate "unlimited" users.

These flat-rate users are very fickle and price-sensitive.

If you peruse subreddits related to cloud storage or online backup, etc., they are filled with very picky users who expect the product to be free - or close to free.

It's a fools errand to pursue this market and I assume the pivot to B2 was to build something more sustainable with a much higher price and usage ceiling.

Regardless, roughly 85% of the user-base are paying $7/mo for "unlimited backup".

I wish them good luck.

parent rsync 5 years ago

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