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Thoughts on product management, subscription growth, and conversion.

Product

The onboarding step your activation metric is ignoring

Most teams track account creation and first click. The drop between those two — the quiet zone where users talk themselves out of coming back — is where activation actually breaks.

June 2026 · 5 min read

Conversion

How I increased payment completion by 20% without changing the price

The checkout wasn't losing people on price — it was giving them too many moments to change their mind. A breakdown of the Allianz Partners redesign and the one repositioning that moved the needle.

June 2026 · 5 min read

Retention

The subscription churn framework I use at every company

Churn is not one problem. Break it into voluntary vs. involuntary and early vs. late — each quadrant has a different cause and a completely different fix.

May 2026 · 5 min read

Pricing

The pricing mistake that makes your product worse

Most companies cut prices when sales slow. Research — and three months free at DirecTV — shows it doesn't just hurt margins. It makes your product perform worse.

June 2026 · 5 min read