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
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…”
Jan 27, 2016 positive
Jul 15, 2019 bearish
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…”
Nov 16, 2020 bullish
Jan 15, 2024 negative
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…”
Aug 23, 2024 bearish
Sep 20, 2024
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.”
Jan 17, 2025 neutral
Jan 24, 2026 positive
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”