"Why pay $20/month when the free version is already smarter than I am?" That's the paradox @GoogleAI hit while designing its AI bundle. @vikaskansalHQ helped craft Google's AI freemium strategy, which has become arguably the most successful (and profitable) consumer subscription product in history (w/ Gemini, Nano Banana, NotebookLM, Veo3, and terabytes of cloud storage). In today’s in-depth guest post, Vikas shares all the lessons he and his team have learned about why SaaS freemium…