We used to buy things. Remember that? Hard drives, hit singles, our favorite movies. But for now at least, the hot trend is subscriptions.
Instead of buying hard drives, we subscribe to cloud storage from Amazon, Google, Microsoft or Dropbox. For music there’s Spotify. For movies there’s Netflix. And it seems a new subscription service is born every minute.
They say that during a gold rush, the surest way to strike it rich is to sell picks and shovels. That’s what Tien Tzuo is doing in this new subscription economy. His company, Zuora, is the engine that powers the subscription process for companies like Box, SurveyMonkey and TripAdvisor.
I talked to Tien Tzuo about how he founded Zuora, and grew it into a company that’s raised nearly a quarter of a billion dollars and is pushing for more growth. He’s got some unique ideas about managing people, and stepping out on your own.
147 - New Life for Fortt Knox on LinkedIn and YouTube. See You There!
146 - AWS CEO Andy Jassy on JEDI, the Cloud's Future and More
145 - Trump and Apple’s CEO Talk Business in Texas
144 - A Fresh Look at Design: Melanie Perkins, co-founder and CEO of Canva
143 - Microsoft JEDI: The Empire Strikes Back; with Morgan Brennan
142 - Mr. Zuckerberg Goes to Washington: with John Stanton and Farhad Manjoo
141 - Tech's Free Speech Challenge
140 - Savings and Startups: Credit Carma CEO Ken Lin; Snowflake CEO Frank Slootman
139 - Microsoft's Dual-Screen Surface: Winner? With Patrick Moorhead
138 - When to Fire a Founder, with Walter Isaacson and Steven Levy
137 - Employees or Contractors? Gig Economy’s Labor Crisis
136 - Apple's iPhone 11 and More: Boom or Bust?
135 - Can Tech Save the NFL? Plus, Rapper Jim Jones on His New Pot Venture
134 - Segment CEO Peter Reinhardt; Plus, Marvel’s Spider-Man Divorce and Streaming Wars
133 - Goodbye IPO, Hello Direct Listing?
132 - The WeWork IPO: Why the Controversy?
131 - Apple Card: How the Cash and Features Stack Up
130 - Monopoly: Are Apple, Google, Facebook & Amazon Fair Game?
129 - Facebook’s $5 billion speeding ticket, with NYT's Farhad Manjoo
128 - Putting a Dollar Value on Personal Data, with CNBC's Josh Lipton
Create your
podcast in
minutes
It is Free
Mad Money w/ Jim Cramer
American Greed Podcast
CNBC’s ”Fast Money”
Squawk on the Street
CNBC’s ”The Suze Orman Show”- Full Show