Mortensen: Negotiating a meeting manually takes eight emails on average
Dennis Mortensen · Did Everyone Make Money in the Bizzabo X.AI Deal? · Jul 9, 2021 · at 7:24
Dennis Mortensen, founder of x.ai, explains the baseline operational friction of human-to-human email scheduling.
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“And it takes about eight emails for every meeting, about three and a half on each side, in general, if two people are trying to negotiate it.”
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