Bell: Manual social listening outreach will not scale much longer
Jeremy Bell · How he built 10k beta list, used it to raise $3m for new Calendar Tool · May 22, 2022 · at 6:14
Jeremy Bell, founder of Mayday, describes his Zapier and Slack-based social listening system used to attract early beta users.
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“It doesn't scale. Like, I don't think this will, you know, work for that much longer.”
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