[barrell]

How much are you lowering the satisfaction of those users though? Sure you may end up with more cashflow, but a much smaller, less eager group of users to be promoters.

The point of this is imho likely to boost the numbers as much as possible prior to IPO at the expense of the UX, brand, and by extension product

[jakelazaroff]

Sure, that’s part of the gamble. But for what it’s worth, I‘m pretty skeptical that raising the price like this will lower the satisfaction of existing users, especially if the remaining ones are mostly businesses.