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Imagine two SaaS companies. Company A: $10K ACV $5K CAC Long sales cycle Company Company B: $25K ACV $8K CAC Same target market Company B can potentially spend more to acquire a customer and still have better economics. That's why I don't look at CAC in isolation. I look at : ACV → Gross Margin → CAC → Payback → Retention → Expansion And pricing becomes especially interesting with AI. AI products often have variable inference or usage costs, which makes a simple per-seat model harder to optimize. A hybrid model: Base subscription + usage/value component can sometimes align revenue better with customer value and underlying costs. The bigger lesson: Pricing isn't just monetization. It affects: Who buys. How they buy. How much you can spend to acquire them. And whether the business can scale profitably. Before cutting CAC, ask: “Are we monetizing the value were actually creating?”   submitted by   /u/sonusuman [link]   [comments]

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  • 发布时间：2026/10/16 03:11:17