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Josh Peleg

Josh Peleg

VP M&A and Business Development at BlueThrone, a VC-backed portfolio company that acquires and scales consumer apps

Jul 10, 2026

24:44
And there's like there's even like tools that can help you with that.
24:47
This rule I really like because it's something that founders can implement like tonight, to be honest with you.
24:52
But essentially what we see in the market is that the apps that can command a premium valuation are actually charging premium prices.
24:58
The cheapest path to $30 million of ARR is actually fewer payers at higher prices because this means less spent on user acquisition.
25:08
You need less people in total, but you can actually charge higher prices.
25:11
The interesting point here that I think should be a real key takeaway for people listening is before ChatGPT came around, the maximum people were kind of willing to spend on their consumer apps was maybe 60 bucks a year.
25:22
That was kind of the benchmark.

9 MINS LATER

34:14
And so you're saying Calm is the more premium?

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