Mathilde Collin
31 statements across 2 episodes · 11 bullish · 2 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 3, 2018 by Mathilde Collin · said 3 times in 3 episodes since 2018 · across every show →
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Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Front converted only 10 users from 3,000 early beta signups
“I think from our beta, we had 3000 companies that signed up to our product, and I think, I don't know, 10 of them ended up using our product, so the conversion rate is not high, but any time I was, ah, onboarding someone, and the person was not interested, I l…”
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
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…”
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Oct 3, 2018 negative
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Founders anchor on rare praise and ignore overwhelming negative feedback
“You need to be so brutally honest with yourself and with your team about what's working and not working. I think startups are so hard that there is Almost like as a human being, you want to be happy. And so you don't necessarily want to face every reality caus…”
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Front hit product-market fit at Series A with $1.5M ARR
“And I think when we raised our series A, and so we raised our series A, we were making, I think, 1.5 million in AR. So a little over a hundred K MR. I think that's where, when I felt like some companies were using the product, and even if I had demoed All the …”
Oct 3, 2018 bullish
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Oct 3, 2018
Transparency is harmful if it creates more problems than it solves
“The way I think about transparency is if something is going to create more primes and raise more questions, then bad use of transparency. If something is going to answer a lot of questions and solve a lot of problems, then good use of transparency.”
Oct 3, 2018
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
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Oct 3, 2018 negative
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 …”
Oct 3, 2018 positive
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…”
Oct 3, 2018 neutral
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Mathilde Collin spent two months debating hypothetical conflicts before co-founding Front
“And I think the thing that we tried to do for two months was asking ourselves all these tough questions that can happen in the journey of two founders. Like, what happens if I want to fire you, or you want to fire me, or you want to sell, and I don't want to s…”
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Oct 3, 2018 positive
Lacking domain expertise can be an advantage for product founders
“So, you know, when people sometimes ask questions about the insights that you have and other people don't have something, something, the fact that you don't have any insight and you have a, like New pair of eyes is actually super insightful.”
Oct 24, 2018
Collin: Front reached 110 employees and $80M raised with zero finance staff
“In a company that's fast growing, like you think, for example, I've been willing to hire a head of finance for,
I don't know, six months, and it's so important, like, we don't have any finance person at France, and we, I don't know, we're a 110 people, we've r…”
Oct 24, 2018 positive
Collin: Operational discipline is more important than having a grand vision
“I think the most important thing is discipline, and I think that discipline is actually more important than having a grand vision. And my personal belief, and I am sure that not a lot of people agree with me, is one of the reasons why we've been successful so …”
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
Collin: Chasing revenue by building custom requests derails product direction
“I think the biggest danger is you have a customer and then, you know, you care so much about growing your revenue. So then they're telling you, I want this. And so then you build this. And I want that, and you build that, and then you just pull your, you push …”
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
Oct 24, 2018
Collin: Early sales teams must be evaluated on inputs, not revenue targets
“I think that the input is far more important at this stage than the output, because the truth is,
If they don't hit their target, first, your target could be wrong, and how could you know what your target should be when you are so early?
and two, maybe your p…”
Oct 24, 2018 positive
Oct 24, 2018
Collin: Co-founders should optimize for mutual respect over personal friendship
“We have so much respect for one another, and that's the thing that you need to optimize for. It doesn't matter how well you get along, you just need to be so impressed by whatever your other person or other persons are doing.”
Oct 24, 2018 positive