Carrying capacity is effectively a ceiling on your SaaS business. How do you calculate it? Better yet, how do you beat it? Let's learn from Readwise and brainstorm what they should build next.
Absolutely loved this Jeremey! I'm doing a case study on Readwise for an internship application right now and ended up having to add a "What I wish Readwise would do" section and we had many of the same thoughts!
Yay! Glad you enjoyed it. Here's another interesting angle to their product - they worked David from Founders Podcast to create Founders Notes - essentially exposing his private Readwise repo for a fee: https://www.foundersnotes.com/. I think that fits the "social reading" angle!
Microsoft is a tough case because they took all the paths - moved up to enterprise and went multi-product - benefiting from distribution through bundling and the power of defaults along the way. Back in 1980, I presume most of their revenue came from one-off sales, not subscription revenue.
Absolutely loved this Jeremey! I'm doing a case study on Readwise for an internship application right now and ended up having to add a "What I wish Readwise would do" section and we had many of the same thoughts!
Yay! Glad you enjoyed it. Here's another interesting angle to their product - they worked David from Founders Podcast to create Founders Notes - essentially exposing his private Readwise repo for a fee: https://www.foundersnotes.com/. I think that fits the "social reading" angle!
Say we took 2 angles.
1) On the basis of hindsight -- what we know now.
2) Without any hindsight.
Jeremy, another perspective on very-long-term carrying capacity estimating:
Let’s say you were estimating carrying capacity for Microsoft early in its existence. In 1980. Let’s say you were doing so for 40 years. To 2020.
How would you unpack doing so?
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Microsoft is a tough case because they took all the paths - moved up to enterprise and went multi-product - benefiting from distribution through bundling and the power of defaults along the way. Back in 1980, I presume most of their revenue came from one-off sales, not subscription revenue.
But, even outside of Microsoft, I think this is similar to the approach I'd take to estimating the size of a business: https://www.focusedchaos.co/p/startup-bottom-up-business-model