Yash Mimani aka ahafisher

- Freemium ladder conversion increasing from early single digits (1-3%) to late single digits (5-10%) through compounding accrual of consumer trust and stickiness

“Silk Road doesn’t really sell drugs. It sells insurance and financial products,” says Carnegie Mellon computer engineering professor Nicolas Christin. “It doesn’t really matter whether you’re selling T-shirts or cocaine. The business model is to commoditize security.”⁠

- Revenue retention moats built through content (topics, celebrity exclusives), social network effects and B2B partnerships

- Predictable revenue consumer SaaS economics with LTV of $120 at 2-3x of $40 CAC

- AI gone wrong

- Religious extremism

- Solving problems to expand scope and scale of human consciousness