Mailbox
product on 7 shows · 3 statements across 2 episodes · said 13 times in 9 episodes since 2014
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 3 
Mixergy 3 
Top Founders 2 
TBPN 2 
20VC 2 
How I Built This 1 
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Houston: UI features like swipes and snoozes are not durable advantages
“Look, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and Gmail and Apple mail and everything is just gonna have these swipes and snoozes and it's just gonna be part of the UI is not a good, or it's not a durable source of advantage.”
Houston: 80% of paying Dropbox users were already using it at work
“I killed carousel, killed mailbox. Went all in on productivity. To some extent that was an easy, a relatively easy decision because most of our subscribers, you know, 80% of people paying for Dropbox were using it at work”
Volset: Mailbox Was Among the First to Innovate Viral Queue Waitlists
“They effectively did what we did, but then we're smart enough to set up a waitlist system. They were one of the first people who did this thing. Like you get on the list, you have so many people in front of you, invite five people when you get to, you know, jo…”