Andrew Milich
Engineering Leader, xAI and SpaceX. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.
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Andrew Milich co-founded the end-to-end encrypted collaboration and email platform Skiff, serving as its CEO until it was acquired by Notion in 2024 to develop Notion Mail. He subsequently led product engineering at AI coding startup Cursor before joining xAI and SpaceX to help build coding capabilities for Grok.
1shows
1appearances
24statements
3resolved
1supported
1contradicted
33%fully supported
Everything Andrew Milich said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Milich: Skiff Will Refuse DOJ Backdoor Demands for User Data
“I think definitely not, and there's no legal precedent that we would do that.”
Milich: Founders should avoid highly unequal equity splits
“Well, I think it is really important to have a co-founder who's not, you know, like not a five 95 split or, you know, a really unequal split just because there are so many rough and grinds, you know, grinding moments in that first few years that I think just h…”
Milich: Skiff cannot access any content that users write or share
“We don't have access to everything you write and you share, and you're the only person who owns your data.”
Milich: Skiff Refuses to Paywall Encrypted Search and Templates
“Like, we specifically don't want to put paywalls on things that will make you kind of have a better experience on day one on Skit. So, for example, our templates feature, which lets you kind of share and use anti-encrypted templates searching through anti-encr…”
Milich: Skiff aims for 30% monthly growth over next year
“So well, it's unclear how sustainable those events are, but you know, we're kind of aiming to do 30% month over month growth for the next year or so.”
Milich: Skiff Wants 10x User Growth Before Series B
“I think we want to have at least 10 times or more as many users.”
Milich: Skiff Cannot Generate Significant Revenue Without Millions of Users
“But the kind of most important thing is like, we just cannot, we'll never generate significant revenue if we don't Reach millions of users.”
Milich: Product-led growth appears flat before compounding vertically
“Product like growth, I think is very difficult and also very time consuming as in like, you will not see thousands of users immediately signing up. Like the whole point of like compounding growth is, you know, it'll look flat and then you look back and it look…”
Milich: Skiff will expand into Google Workspace competitor within weeks
“Actually in a few weeks, we're kind of broadening that vision significantly and bringing in kind of more aspects of the typical Google WorkSuite, and so you'll see that in the next few weeks.”
Milich: Skiff has paying individuals and SMB customers up to 100 employees
“We have some paying customers, a bunch of individuals, and then we're kind of, we have some kind of, I'd say small to medium sized businesses up to a hundred people paying for skip.”
Milich: Skiff's MAU growth exceeded 30% month-over-month
“It's been, I think, over 30% for the last few months.”
Milich: Chinese YouTube video lifted Skiff growth 30% in three days
“Like we had a YouTube video released about Skiff in China on Friday that probably bumped our growth up 30% in three days.”
Milich: Skiff utilizes zero client-side tracking
“So like, there's no client side tracking, anything like that.”
Milich: Mobile and desktop apps drive higher retention in workspace products
“And obviously stuff like mobile apps, desktop apps leads to much higher retention in products like ours.”
Milich: Skiff raised approximately $4M in seed funding
“So we raised, I think, two and a half million initially, and then we ended up adding about one and a half a million from angel investors right after that. So it ended up being about four.”
Milich: Skiff Has Retained Over Two-Thirds of Its $14M Raised
“Also, by the way, of the kind of fourteen million we raised, like more than two thirds is still unspent.”
Milich: Scale AI's Alexandr Wang and Retool's David Hsu Invested in Skiff
“We have some great angel investor CEOs like Alexander, the CEO of scale. And you know, I think he's been a great role model to also David, the CEO of Retool.”
Milich: Skiff charges $10 monthly for individuals and about double for enterprise
“So for the individual plan, people are paying, I believe it's 10 dollars a month, or maybe there's an annual plan discount. And enterprise is anywhere from depending on the options you choose, you know, about double that.”
Milich: Skiff monetizes easily on storage because users expect linear pricing
“So one of the things we can monetize pretty easily is storage space. People are probably paying for storage space in their life already, whether it's on Google or it's on Dropbox or something else. And so that's something that's pretty common. Also it's, you k…”
Milich: Skiff co-founders split equity roughly fifty-fifty
“Yeah, roughly that. I mean, I kind of set up a lot of the structure in those interim few months. And so then we kind of, we want it to work together as equals.”
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