email

also referred to as: emails

9 statements across 9 episodes · 4 bullish · 3 bearish · 9 people on the record · first statement Sep 6, 2015 by Javier Soltero · across every show →

Everything said about email, oldest first

Sep 6, 2015 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Soltero: Microsoft will modernize email into a beloved medium within five years
“Over the next five years, we're here to make email awesome, and really take this incredibly powerful and pervasive medium that, that we often sort of complain about and hate and really turn it into something that people genuinely love and feel like it has adap…”
Javier Soltero Sep 6, 2015 ▶ 28:59 FF 012: Acquired by Microsoft for $200m with Javier Soltero @ Microsoft
Jan 27, 2016 positive
Assertion Supported
Email remains the biggest conversion driver for direct-to-consumer businesses
“Email is always, and still is, you know, kind of the biggest conversion driver in a lot of these direct to consumer businesses.”
Ellie Wheeler Jan 27, 2016 ▶ 7:36 20VC: Lessons From Working with Chris Sacca, The Rise Of Mobile Commerce and Improving Push Notifications with Ellie Wheeler, Partner @ Greycroft Partners
Jul 15, 2019 bearish
Prediction Open · timeframe Jul 2029
Subotovsky: Next-gen startups will disrupt legacy email, CRM, and calendar incumbents
“Email, calendar, CRM, marketing automation, those haven't changed significantly in decades. So I believe that in the next 10 years, we're gonna see a lot of the leading companies in those categories disrupted by new generations of companies that are rebuilding…”
Santi Subotovsky Jul 15, 2019 ▶ 34:50 20VC: Zoom From Series A to IPO, How VCs Can Provide CEOs with Additional Leverage and Why The Negative Effects of Signalling Are Very Real with Santi Subotovsky, General Partner @ Emergence Capital
Nov 16, 2020 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Butterfield: Channel-based messaging will eventually replace all internal corporate email
“At some point, everyone in the world will be using a channel-based messaging platform for internal communication rather than email.”
Stewart Butterfield Nov 16, 2020 ▶ 8:17 20VC: Slack Founder Stewart Butterfield on Leadership Styles, Decision-Making, The 3 Levels of Wealth, IPOs vs Direct Listings & Why Effective Entrepreneurship is Like Parkour
Jan 15, 2024 negative
Insight
Brian Halligan warns that managing life via Slack enforces other people's priorities
“There's another thing I would say about prioritizing, Harry, is I think too many people run their life through Slack and through their email, and that's everyone else's priority list imposed on you, and so you're really just spending your whole time working on…”
Brian Halligan Jan 15, 2024 ▶ 46:19 Brian Halligan: Leadership Lessons Scaling Hubspot to $28BN | E1103 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Aug 23, 2024 bearish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Cold email and LinkedIn sales outbound no longer work
“Like what I'm being told, and again, I don't do it, but the feedback I get is emails, LinkedIn simply doesn't work. It just, it, there's too much of it.”
Chad Peets Aug 23, 2024 ▶ 50:25 Chad Peets: Why Most Sales Reps Underperform & Remote Reps Ignore Development | E1193 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Sep 20, 2024
Insight
Phil Carter: Overusing Push Notifications and Emails Kills Engagement Channels
“Anytime you increase the number of notifications or emails you send, in the short term, it's like the sugar high. It's going to lead to a short-term pop in your metrics, but if you do that too many times, you kill the channel.”
Phil Carter Sep 20, 2024 ▶ 0:18 Phil Carter: Growth Loops, CAC + LTV Benchmarks, Pricing, Discounts, Paywalls... | E1204 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Disclosure
Monday.com Co-CEO Eran Zinman does not use email
“I, one of the reasons I didn't reply to your email is that I don't use email”
Eran Zinman Jan 17, 2025 ▶ 28:54 Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jan 24, 2026 positive
Insight
Stebbings: Move business contacts off email onto WhatsApp to build genuine rapport
“What people don't see is the 10 years of relationship building before that, but the most important lesson from that, actually, is I always want people off email. Get people off email. People want to work with people who they like”
Harry Stebbings Jan 24, 2026 ▶ 8:34 20VC: Raising $400M for 20VC: Fundraising Lessons | Getting Marc Benioff Through 53 Cold Emails: How to Master Cold Outbound | 7 Lessons from 101 Decacorn Founders with Harry Stebbings (Simon Squibb Edition)
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