Madhavan Ramanujam (
@MadhavanSF) has helped 30 unicorns architect their pricing strategies.
He also wrote the definitive book on pricing strategy, Monetizing Innovation, and next week, he's releasing his newest book, Scaling Innovation: How Smart Companies Architect Profitable Growth, which will instantly become the new go-to guide for pricing your AI product.
In our conversation, Madhavan shares:
🔸 Why popular AI coding tools may have already doomed themselves with underpricing
🔸 His 2x2 framework for determining your ideal pricing model
🔸 Why AI companies can capture 50% of value (vs 10% for SaaS)
🔸 Why AI companies must get monetization right from day one—not “figure it out later”
🔸 The negotiation trick that helped one founder 4x their deal size overnight
🔸 How to price your POCs for maximum leverage
🔸 How companies like Intercom’s Fin and Sierra pioneered outcome-based pricing (charging $0.99 per AI resolution)
🔸 The single question that reveals if your pricing is too complex
Listen now 👇
• YouTube:
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