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Re:Product-Led Growth for Dev-First Business: Is It Inevitable? by zmgsabst on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:15AM (#34214611)
Bottom-up really requires the “and up” part:

- each pricing plan targets an org scale

- and the features address those problems

That’s why websites tend to go from selling you on individual features (5 servers a month!) to team features (10 headcount!) to organization features (auto-invoice! SAML!). Your entry point is the bottom user (5 server home IOT), who convinces a manager (our team needs this!), who convinces a director (we can solve this org issue!).

The problem you’re describing is “bottom only”: if you only solve the basic problem, you’ll only attract bottom clients.

(I agree with your point about middle-out; just emphasizing the “up” part of bottom-up.)

Re:Product-Led Growth for Dev-First Business: Is It Inevitable? by RyanHamilton on Monday January 02, 2023 @04:25AM (#34216018)
Your individual->team->organization breakdown is an excellent way to look at it. Simple, short, perfect. Thanks.
Re:Product-Led Growth for Dev-First Business: Is It Inevitable? by richtong1 on Monday January 02, 2023 @12:13PM (#34220444)
Definitely.
Re:Product-Led Growth for Dev-First Business: Is It Inevitable? by debosmit on Tuesday January 03, 2023 @07:27PM (#34240149)
got some other interesting insights from the BCG post by Akash Bhatia related to the stage of the company and their cloud adoption

see `Creating a Developer-Focused GTM Model` [here](https://www.bcg.com/publications/2022/developers-influence-i...)

taking the purchase pathway of: 1. need/demand 2. shortlisting 3. testing/evaluation 4. final decision

it seems like the dev teams has (and derivatively, the developers have) say in at least the testing/eval and the final decision stages. as cloud native becomes more mainstream, i'm sure we can see how this influence will affect each stage of the purchase pathway.