email

8 statements across 4 episodes · 3 bullish · 2 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Oct 4, 2017 by Ryan Hoover · across every show →

Everything said about email, oldest first

Oct 4, 2017 positive
Insight
Hoover: Email MVPs are easier to iterate than software built in code
“It's a very simple way to MVP something and see if people actually open it and click on it. It's also very malleable. So every single morning or every day when you send that email, you can change the copy. You can try different things. Whereas when you put som…”
Ryan Hoover Oct 4, 2017 ▶ 7:16 Communicate with Users, Build Something They Want - Ryan Hoover of Product Hunt · Y Combinator
Sep 8, 2018 positive
Insight
Ooshma Garg: Email Is the Best Tool for Early Pricing Experiments
“In a, if you're in a scrappy company, the best tool for pricing experimentation is email.”
Ooshma Garg Sep 8, 2018 ▶ 43:55 A Conversation with Ooshma Garg - Moderated by Adora Cheung · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Opinion
Mathilde Collin: Slack cannot replace email for external business communication
“Now, in a work environment I feel like email, the protocol is actually perfect because it's the only protocol that you can use to communicate with people outside your company. And so even if you have great tools like Slack that enable you to Slack in, to messa…”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 38:11 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Insight
Collin: Email was not designed for collaborative team workflows
“A lot of people inside the team that needs to handle these emails, and they struggle managing that as a team because email wasn't made for teams.”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 1:32 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018
Insight
Changing user email habits requires a 10x better value proposition
“If you want people to change how they deal with email, the amount of innovation that you need to bring needs to be super high because it's very disruptive to change. So then the value proposition needs to be like, It needs to be 10 X better.”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 3:40 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Insight
Mathilde Collin would eliminate subject lines, CC, and BCC from email
“So, you know, I think I would probably wipe out most of the structural features. Cause when you think about, you know, the main things are you have a subject, you have a signature, you literally carbon copy and blind carbon copy. And so I think I would remove …”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 39:34 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Mathilde Collin predicts personal email will die while workplace email grows
“So like you're emailing friends and families. I don't think that email will last forever. So if you look at the growth year over year, it's actually decreasing every year. Whereas if you look at work emails, it's increasing year over year. So I believe that em…”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 37:40 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Mar 6, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Knoop: Zapier operates with zero internal email across the entire company
“We don't send any internal email.”
Mike Knoop Mar 6, 2019 ▶ 43:10 Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
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