Consumer AI lesson: free individual users are a cheap B2B acquisition channel
FinanceYF5 · x · 2026-10-09
Lesson 2 of Olivia Moore's consumer AI thread: consumers may be reluctant to pay directly for AI subscriptions, but they can serve as an extremely low-cost enterprise acquisition channel. When the product does genuinely valuable work and its output is naturally shareable, individual users will bring it into their teams and companies on their own.
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