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Lenny’s Newsletter♥ 227

What is good free-to-paid conversion

Aug 1, 2023 · 13 min
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Lenny Rachitsky, with OpenView and Pendo, benchmarks free-to-paid conversion from a survey of 1,000+ products, defining good and great rates for freemium, sales-assisted, and free-trial models. It argues conversion…

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Lenny’s Podcast76 min

Mastering onboarding

Lauryn Isford · Feb 12, 2023
Key learnings
  • Experiment when you need to, mainly as risk mitigation for big changes; let customer research and mockups provide conviction for…
  • Onboarding is a critical choke point for self-serve products because downstream conversion, deal closing, and team-wide adoption…
  • For complex products, an immersive guided wizard that reduces cognitive load can outperform tooltips; tooltips still have a place…
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Lenny’s Podcast115 min

How to find hidden growth opportunities in your product

Albert Cheng · Oct 5, 2025
Key learnings
  • Alternate between exploring for new insights and exploiting proven wins; when experiments stop reaching significance, return to…
  • Share experiment learnings across the company so adjacent teams can apply the same human-psychology insight to their own parts of…
  • Make a free tier a taste of the full product's value rather than a stripped-down version; sampling paid suggestions to free users…
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