Mobile Dev Memo Podcast

Season 5, Episode 19: The power of cohort compounding (with Nilay Patel)


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My guest on this episode of the podcast is Nilay Patel, the head of product at Kohort, a cohort analytics platform (full disclosure: I'm an advisor to the company). In our conversation, we discuss the profound power of cohort analysis in decision-making, not just related to marketing spend but across all disciplines within a digital-first company. Among other topics, we cover:

  • The aspects of LTV estimation that companies most often get wrong;
  • Why cohorts represent the most appropriate atomic unit to use in assessing a product's unit economics;
  • How cohort monetization can be used as an input to a user acquisition cash flow model;
  • How to handle outliers in cohort analysis;
  • How companies can approach this type of prediction / forecasting if they don't spending significant amounts of money on user acquisition;
  • How companies should think about monetization improvements over time when they project cohort performance;
  • How the user acquisition channel mix contributes to cohort performance over time.

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