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• bullish prediction Mathilde Collin

  I do think that email will remain

• bullish fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  when we launched the SMS integration in front at the beginning not a lot of people were using it and then they realized that it can be a better customer experience and so then they use SMS more and more

• bullish assessment Mathilde Collin

  I'm convinced that it's the best way to communicate with anyone and I think the protocol is great but I think the interfaces are not great

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  people keep asking the same question like how do i pair with my Bluetooth my bluetooth keeps dropping

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  most often it's Gmail outlook not display Singh that's like those of people who don't have a solution

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  the reason why people would switch from one to the other is because they want a tool that's more flexible so all the integration that we have they want something more human

• bullish assessment Mathilde Collin

  30% of our idea use that use front as a full replacement for their email system

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  I do think that people who are your customers probably fall into one of two buckets one they're using an antiquated solution or two they'd use no solution at all

• bullish endorsement Unattributed

  the products amazing we've been using in that inside.com

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  there's two ways to attack a space one you can build a platform like slack did and let the developer community start plugging different things into the API or you can take what you think is the best use case just absolutely crush it like you have

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  Siuert Butterfield the CEO of slack is an investor in our company

• bullish prediction Mathilde Collin

  I think there is a great world where slack and front exist and really change how people work

• bullish assessment Mathilde Collin

  slack is for synchronous communication and front is for asynchronous communication

• bullish assessment Mathilde Collin

  front is great for external communication

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  you can create workflows around it for example you can say even issue is closing github then reopen all the conversation in front and that way you get back to all your customers saying the issue is fixed

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  front is also integrating with any tool that you are using

• bullish fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  the biggest promise that we make to our customers is nothing will fall through the cracks a good tagline yeah

• bullish fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  in Tesla's case they're using they are using fronts

• neutral fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  so basically with French you can have all your communication in one place

• neutral assessment Mathilde Collin

  in the US when you look at big companies they were small not so long ago so they have a lot of empathy for you and so they believe that you could be like a growing company they see the benefits of being a small company you can build fast it's right but in France it's like you just see the risk that you take in ordering and like a tool in the communication space so emails for people are critical to their business so if they start using our product and for some reason we go out of business or we'r

• bullish fact_claim Mathilde Collin

  I know some really big companies using Tesla Cisco Dropbox Obama haha French president Morricone

• bullish fact_claim Jason Calacanis

  the company's been doing great 45 employees now and they are growing at over ten percent month-over-month according to reports

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  I'm a paying customer of it

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  well also the market patron of iris doesn't told me that the market down that that's the interesting thing for me it would seem to be in a coronavirus environment delivery would be preferable to going to a restaurant with a hundred people in it

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  I don't think they missed their window I mean you look at so two out and go public uber itza is an outlier in this right because like taking uber eats cash versus like ubers total war chest right that's also a fair point there public so yeah they got out yeah I don't think they'd miss their window I think it's gonna be tight I think for a long time for those guys it's been you know you have to execute right along this line or you're in trouble but I think they'll get there

• bullish assessment Austen Allred

  it's so much better for our students that we do it that way than if we fund it with VC and our incentives are still totally aligned

• bullish assessment Austen Allred

  it makes it so that us along with investors are funding this the cost of tuition for the students and then the investors get their money back first and we make our money on the upside but what it makes it is so we don't have to fund everything with VC much because that's not a sustainable models

• neutral fact_claim Unattributed

  our board was just you know hey so our response internally is always you know try to block it out and like focus on the students because at the end of the day you know as long as our students are successful like it doesn't really matter what New York magazine writes that's the thing that I've been surprised by is how little effect that actually has at the end of the day

• bullish prediction Unattributed

  I hope you become a billionaire becomes a lambda because if you do that means tens of thousands of people will have become developers there's no way for you to become richer of the startup or your investors unless you produce what hundreds of thousands of developers

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  I understand universities are now watching lambda and because at the tip of the spear they're following you and now they're gonna do Isis this is correct right correct

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  that sort of solution of you don't have to pay anything upfront actually speaks to a huge sector of the American public that is terrified of taking on more debt

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  the person takes no risk lambda takes 100% of the risk if the person doesn't get a well-paying job over 50k they pay zero

• bullish assessment Unattributed

  you have created the giant Mitzvah of all mitzvahs for all of young people who might want to transition and the payback he gets is people don't even understand that nobody's on the hook

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  if you're running a start-up you need to be super efficient and you've probably got tons of SMS messages coming in emails for customer support and you're having all these conversations in single player mode in other words we've got all these threads inside of your email well what if you could play multiplayer email well that's what front let you do and I have a portfolio company you look and they are a talent marketplace and we've invested in this company and their CEO Zack runs the entire compa

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  this makes it wildly efficient and the drivers only have to go to one location so you could have literally 30 restaurants in the space that one restaurant would have previously been located 30 different brands and the drivers only have to go to one space so you can start to add up why this is incredibly powerful

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  this will be one of these businesses that are anti fragile during a pandemic more people want to order food in because they don't want to leave their house and during a crises an economic downturn are people gonna stop eating no they're gonna keep eating and so will they go out to a fancy restaurant maybe that's where they make the cut and then maybe they do more delivery and pickup of affordable food from these cloud kitchens and these cloud kitchens are gonna be able to do things more efficien

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  if you want to try to raise I don't think it's a bad idea to get on some people's radar if you do very tight targeted emails where you're emailing a very specific investor you've read their blog you follow them on social media you know where their portfolio is at how big their fund is you've really researched that person and you've customized that pitch to them

• bullish endorsement Jason Calacanis

  some investors if they don't have a huge portfolio are probably sitting there at home locked up with their headset and zoom and they might want to take a quick 10 or 20 minute call so if you frame it as such hey I've got to start up we grew 25% on average the last three months and this month it looks like we're gonna grow 40 percent so you're leading with that strength and the strongest part of your business you're showing you're a high-growth company

• neutral assessment Jason Calacanis

  now is a terrible time to get on the radar of investors you don't know because they're probably very busy and that would be the argument that I'm seeing with a lot of investors

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  I would say overall the down market is the absolute best time and there's never a bad time to start a great company

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  what will happen during a crisis like this is people will value security and they'll be less likely to jump from company to company and when you go buy ads on Facebook or Google maybe you won't have as many free flowing dollars there so your customer acquisition cost which might have been $150 suddenly goes down to 50 well if your profit margin on your product is $75 you were basically unsustainable in terms of using those ecosystems to grow and now you're suddenly profitable

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  a down market is great for a number of reasons the first reason is there's not a lot of competition and that means competition for customers competition for funding dollars in competition for employees and talent

• bullish assessment Jason Calacanis

  in is an economic crisis a good time to start a company heck yes heck yes and it's a great time to be an investor in company so as I always tell people fortunes are built in the down market they're collected in the up market

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