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Mathilde Collin admits raising Front's early funding rounds was easy
“For us, at least, we've been fortunate enough, and every round has been super easy, so seed series A and series B, we raised pretty quickly. So if there is one thing that's not hard, and that's probably the only thing about building front, for us, it's been ra…”
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Collin: Front avoided VC funds during its seed round
“So for example, seed round, I didn't know what I was doing. And so I didn't want any VC. So it was more angel investors would invest because I didn't want to have any pressure from anyone.”
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Mathilde Collin: Investors Bet on Her Personally Rather Than Front's Metrics
“I think the thing that keeps me up at night is as the company is growing, like people put so much expectations on front and specifically on me. And so I keep hearing from a lot of different people, like the reason we're betting on front is because you're the C…”
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Mathilde Collin admits Front ignored net retention metrics until Series B
“I had to wait till our series B, I think, to look at our net retention.”
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Mathilde Collin packed 11 VC partner meetings into a single week
“So I scheduled all the partners meetings the week after. So 11 partner meetings in one week, which was pretty tiring.”
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Collin: Sequoia Board Member Ran Front's VP of Sales Search
“So Brian from Sequoia, who joined our board a month ago, like, I said, oh, we need a VP cells, and he was like, I will run the search for you. And then he's, so our new VP cells is training on Monday.”
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Collin: Front was conceived because she spent 6–7 hours daily in email
“I wanted to work on email because I was spending probably six or seven hours per day in my inbox.”