Sub Club
David Barnard, Jacob Eiting
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Deep dives into building and growing mobile app businesses. Hosts David Barnard and Jacob Eiting interview industry insiders where they share insights, strategies, and stories behind the biggest apps in the App Store.
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Feb 17, 2021
Faye Keegan, Dipsea - Pioneering a New Genre of Audio App
Our guest today is Faye Keegan, co-founder, and CTO of Dipsea. Part technology company and part story studio, Dipsea is the first audio platform for women's sexual wellness.
Feb 2, 2021
Eric Crowley, GP Bullhound - The Next Big Opportunity in Software
Eric is an investment banker with GP Bullhound, focusing on consumer subscription software (CSS), enterprise software, and financial technology. With investments in companies ranging from Spotify to Fishbrain, and clients such as AllTrails, Partnerize, and Motif, GP Bullhound provides transaction advice and capital to many of the leaders in the consumer subscription software space. Prior to joining GP Bullhound, Eric was a senior executive at a leading education SaaS company focusing on corporate finance and strategy.
Jan 20, 2021
Darius Mora, Reflectly - Building a Lean Growth Machine for the World’s Largest Journaling App
Darius Mora is the Chief Marketing Officer at Reflectly, the world’s largest journaling app. He’s been focused on ASO, free marketing, paid user acquisition, and retention for both Android and iOS apps.
Jan 12, 2021
Vu Pham and Nick Robinson, Zero - Transitioning a Free App with Millions of Users to Subscriptions
Today's guests Vu Pham and Nick Robinson share their experience transitioning the world's biggest fasting app (Zero) to subscriptions, as well as their work on other popular health apps Less and Oak.
Dec 16, 2020
Zach Shakked, Hashtag Expert - Building a $100k App Business in 6 Months
This week’s guest is Zach Shakked, an iOS developer who is incredibly transparent about his experiences building successful app businesses.
Dec 2, 2020
Eric Seufert, Rovio - Performance Marketing in a Post-IDFA World
In this week’s episode, we asked mobile marketing expert Eric Seufert for his take on upcoming privacy changes in iOS 14 and why the post-IDFA world presents a huge opportunity for mobile app developers.
Nov 18, 2020
Hot Takes - The New App Store Small Business Program
Apple announced its new App Store Small business program which reduces fees from 30% to 15% for apps making less than $1m per year. We discuss the potential impact of this new program and what it means for app developers.
Nov 13, 2020
Jake Mor, FitnessAI - Taking a Fitness App to Y Combinator and Beyond
Starting a mobile-first subscription app business can be tough — there are a lot of decisions to make. Should you bootstrap or raise investor funding? How will you classify your business? When is the right time to monetize your app?
Oct 30, 2020
Nico Wittenborn, Adjacent - The Trillion-Dollar Subscription App Opportunity
We’re at an interesting point in the evolution of the subscription app ecosystem. Mass adoption of smartphones, consumers’ increasing willingness to pay for digital services, and a better business model — Personal SaaS — are all coming together to create a huge opportunity for mobile-first subscription app developers. Just how big is this opportunity?
Oct 29, 2020
Jacob Eiting and David Barnard - Introducing the Sub Club Podcast
In this premiere episode, David and Jacob chat about the early days of the App Store, the birth of the subscription app business model, and what the next 20 years of personal SaaS development might look like.