Pocket

Re-monetize Pocket/Flipboard: ~$100/user vs 50 cents

Sam pitches building a paid news aggregator for the US market, contrasting Japanese apps making ~$100 per user against free apps like Pocket and Flipboard that have 50 million users but make near-nothing per user.

“They have something like $50 million, or 50 million users. They don't make shit. They lose money, they don't make shit. And so what I wanna ask you is, why, how do you think you would monetize Flipboard and Pocket and these things better? Because we— like, now's the golden opportunity for new stuff.”

Steal thisTake a free content aggregator, repackage it as a paid subscription, and charge upfront.