Strategy question
If Google invented teleportation, how would you price it?
- Strategy
- Hard
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What this question tests
Pricing strategy reasoning applied to a hypothetical, testing whether the candidate structures an answer around value, cost and market rather than a random number.
How to approach it
- Clarify what is being priced: per trip fare, subscription, or licensing the tech to others.
- Identify the value being replaced: the closest substitute is airfare, so anchor pricing relative to current flight costs.
- Consider cost structure: even magic tech likely has operating costs that set a pricing floor.
- Propose a tiered model: premium pricing at launch for capacity constrained routes, tiered down as capacity scales.
- State an illustrative anchor, pricing modestly above business class airfare initially, and note this is an assumption.
What a strong answer includes
- Anchors on airfare as the nearest substitute rather than picking an arbitrary number.
- Reasons about capacity constraints at launch justifying premium pricing, similar to early aviation history.
- Clearly flags assumed numbers as illustrative, not researched fact.
Common mistakes
- Answering with a single guessed price and no reasoning chain.
- Ignoring that even fictional pricing questions expect value based, not cost plus only, reasoning.
Likely follow-up questions
- How would pricing change once capacity scales significantly?
- Would you price differently for cargo versus passengers?
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Learn the skill behind it
Chapters of the AI PM course that teach what this question tests.
- Chapter 4: Discovery and strategy for AI products
- Chapter 9: Prove it paid off: outcomes, economics, and pricing
- Chapter 14: Get the job: the AI PM interview loop