Lane Merrifield

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Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin · The Double-Edged Sword of the "Shark Tank Effect" with Club Penguin Cofounder Lane Merrifield · 1 Oct 2025 podcast

Subscription is more normalized.

I still remember being in an office with Eddie Kuhn from Apple,

trying to convince him to allow us to charge a subscription in our game because back then Apple only allowed subscriptions for newspapers and for magazines.

And they're like, no, we would never allow subscriptions for a game.

It just doesn't make any sense.

And ironically enough, fast forward, now you've got Apple Arcade, which in and of itself is a music subscription.

So it just showed the evolution there.

So we've evolved a lot, which is great.

But I see oftentimes entrepreneurs starting with the opportunistic approach of saying, well, what's going to make me the most money?

And the

Tough part about that is then they end up executing it, they launch it, and for some reason it doesn't meet their expectations because they haven't found that win-win.

You know, we started very intentionally by saying our parents are going to be our decision makers.

Our kids are going to be our influencers.

And so our decision makers, we need to keep them happy first and foremost, which is why we're going to make it ad-free.

So we're going to cut off that revenue stream in order to make sure that our decision makers are as happy and content as possible.

So that when they walk by their kid's computer screen, they're not seeing a giant billboard for Kool-Aid or for Lucky Charms when they're going, wait, why am I paying five, six bucks a month for this?

And they're still inundating my kids with ads.

So those are all very active decisions, sometimes risky decisions, but we found those wins.

We found a way to make sure that everyone in the ecosystem was happy and content.

And I think we were financially rewarded for it.

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