[danpalmer]

Having been in a YC company that wasn't in the SaaS space, this never made sense to me/us. So many YC products were just way out of a reasonable price bracket, there's only so many $30/m subscriptions you can buy per employee. Talking with their sales teams was funny because they grossly over estimated our budgets.

[UnfitFootprint]

Not that I’ve ever partaken in any US startup, but $30/m? If the employees are earning average YC salary that seems like a drop in the ocean, even with 5-6 subscriptions

[danpalmer]

When you're paying an average per employee of $250k USD/yr for your big engineering team and have a 90% margin, it's trivial.

When you're paying an average of, say £50k GBP/yr, for some engineers but a lot of other disciplines, and have a 30% margin it's a very different thing, especially when it's hard to justify the actual time savings.