{"podcast":{"title":"Business Models Explained with Fexingo: Subscription, Marketplace, SaaS, and Service Companies","slug":"business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638","podcast_index_feed_id":7871638,"rss_url":"https://feeds.fexingo.com/business/business-models-explained.xml","website_url":"https://www.fexingo.com/","image_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/business-models-explained/cover.png","author":"Fexingo","episode_count":122,"summary":"Subscription models, marketplaces, SaaS, and service companies each have distinct unit economics, growth levers, and competitive moats. In this show, Lucas and Luna dissect how businesses like Netflix, Uber, Salesforce, and McKinsey actually make money — comparing CAC, LTV, churn rates, and contribution margins. Lucas brings journalistic rigor, cross-referencing financial filings and case studies; Luna challenges assumptions about scalability, pricing power, and customer lock-in. Each episode centers on a single model or a head-to-head comparison, avoiding fluff for concrete numbers. This is for listeners who want to understand why some subscription businesses fail while others thrive, why marketplace liquidity matters more than user count, or how SaaS companies balance growth against profitability. No founder hype, no generic advice — just the mechanics behind real companies. How do you choose the right model for a new venture? When should a marketplace pivot to managed services? What makes a subscription truly sticky? #SubscriptionModel #MarketplaceBusiness #SaaS #ServiceCompany #UnitEconomics #CAC #LTV #ChurnRate #ContributionMargin #Netflix #Uber #Salesforce #McKinsey #Busines…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-19T04:18:57.843124+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638"},"episode":{"title":"How the NYT Subscription Model Made Digital Work","slug":"how-the-nyt-subscription-model-made-digital-work","published_at":"2026-07-08T17:10:52+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638/how-the-nyt-subscription-model-made-digital-work","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638","url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/business-models-explained/episode-0102.mp3","audio_url":"https://audio.fexingo.com/business/business-models-explained/episode-0102.mp3","summary":"The New York Times is one of the few legacy media companies that cracked the subscription code. In 2020, it crossed 5 million digital subscribers; by 2026, it's pushing 12 million. Lucas and Luna walk through the specific decisions that turned an old newspaper into a subscription growth engine: the metered paywall introduced in 2011, the willingness to trade print revenue for digital growth, the bundling of news with Games, Cooking, Wirecutter, and The Athletic, and the controversial 'hard paywall' on the Opinion section. They dissect the unit economics: how average revenue per subscriber actually compares to print, why the churn rate hovers around 5-6%, and how the company protects its premium pricing by adding value layers instead of cutting prices. The episode doesn't pretend it was easy — the Times lost a lot of traffic and ad revenue in the early years. But the bet that quality journalism could command a premium in the digital age has paid off. #NewYorkTimes #SubscriptionModel #DigitalMedia #Paywall #LegacyMediaTurnaround #MeteredPaywall #Bundling #Wirecutter #TheAthletic #NYTGames #NYTCooking #ChurnRate #AverageRevenuePerUser #UnitEconomics #JournalismBusiness #MediaStrategy #FexingoBusiness #BusinessPodcast Keep every episode free: buymeacoffee.com/fexingo","meta_description":"The New York Times is one of the few legacy media companies that cracked the subscription code. In 2020, it crossed 5 million digital subscribers; by 2026…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":493,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638/episodes/how-the-nyt-subscription-model-made-digital-work/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/business-models-explained-with-fexingo-subscription-marketplace-saas-and-service-companies-7871638/how-the-nyt-subscription-model-made-digital-work.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}