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Mathilde Collin

Co-Founder & Executive Chair, Front · 2 appearances on the record.

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Mathilde Collin is the co-founder and Executive Chair of Front, a collaborative customer communication platform. She previously served as the company's CEO, scaling it to a multi-billion-dollar valuation.

52statements → 16claims → 2claims resolved → 3.79/5average certainty → 1.98/5average debate potential → 3said about them ↓

2 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 14 not checkable as stated how the 16 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

1 prediction · 15 assertions · 4 opinions · 24 insights · 8 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 16 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 2 are resolved, and 14 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

What the tape says about how Mathilde argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
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 …”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 41:32 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Everything Mathilde Collin said on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

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
Assertion Supported
Front waited two and a half years to hire its first marketer
“We hired our first marketing person in January, 2017. So two and a half years after we launched the product.”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 14:26 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Assertion Not checkable as stated
As of 2018, Front's workforce was 80% San Francisco and 20% Paris
“So we decided to have an office in Paris in January this year. And so now we have about 20% of our team in Paris and 80% here.”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 32:09 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
Disclosure
Mathilde Collin meditated every day for 500 consecutive days
“I've been meditating for every day for, I think, 500 days.”
Mathilde Collin Oct 3, 2018 ▶ 44:46 Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator

The other half of the tape: Mathilde Collin's own voice is left out of every number here. Other people bring the name up 3 times in 3 episodes on the Y Combinator Startup Podcast. every mention, with the transcript →

Who brings them up most Paul Buchheit 1Gustaf Alströmer 1Craig Cannon 1

Every mention by year

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2022 1 mention in 1 episode
2018 2 mentions in 2 episodes 1 per episode

Appearances (2)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
After PMF: People, Customers, Sales by Mathilde Collin · Y Combinator Oct 24, 2018 39m
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator Oct 3, 2018 38m
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