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Foo: Email software lacked venture-scale growth potential despite strong adoption
“We had tens of thousands of active users but the email space is tough. And I think, you know, it wasn't necessarily something that had the potential to grow into a venture scale business.”
Babin: Email winners will offer convenience over the best product
“I guess not the best one, but the one who will penetrate the market with the most convenient way for the user, for the customer, because what we experienced is that when we started targeting customers specifically corporate customers, we saw that they just don…”
Brandon Foo: Gmail web interface with plugins creates a slow, cumbersome experience
“What we found is that, you know, a lot of people are unsatisfied with the Gmail web interface, you know, having to install multiple web plugins that results in a very cumbersome experience that slows down the browser, and then none of those features, you know,…”
Foo: Polymail has just over 20,000 daily active users
“So we're at just over 20,000 daily active users right now.”
Foo: Employees at Dropbox, Twitter, and Airbnb independently adopted Polymail
“We have multiple users at Dropbox, Twitter, Airbnb where a lot of the users there have just adopted the product on their own.”
Foo: Polymail became the third most upvoted product on Product Hunt
“We launched sort of an early Mac prototype on Product Hunt in December of last year, and that actually ended up becoming the number three most upvoted product of all time on Product Hunt in one Mac after the year.”
Polymail has raised around $1 million total, including YC funding
“We have raised just around a million dollars including YC's investment.”
Foo: Polymail sold in a small exit to an early investor
“Ultimately we sold it to one of our investors. So again, it was a very small exit.”