Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
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Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#2This is some next level bullshit bingo.
Disclosure: I read most of it so you don't have to.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#3Slackifying e-mail sounds like a nightmare to me. Email is about perfect for what it was designed. I check it when I want to check it, few Times a day. We (as humanity) really give up more and more of our most precious resources: attention and deep focus.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#4This is some next level bullshit bingo. Disclosure: I read most of it so you don't have to.
I was one of the earliest customers of Front and there is still so much more they can do. For any team that uses email, Front has so many nice features that don’t work or are hard to get working with other email clients.
For a small support or sales team I highly recommend it and I’m looking forward to their growth and hopefully future innovation. Happy to answer more about how we used it and why I love it as a product.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#5Slackifying e-mail sounds like a nightmare to me. Email is about perfect for what it was designed. I check it when I want to check it, few Times a day. We (as humanity) really give up more and more of our most precious resources: attention and deep focus.
Deep focus is very precious and really requires immersing oneself in the topic - oftentimes far away from a screen or blinky lights. Rich Hickey has a great quote about hammocks: when you're in one, nobody can tell you're not sleeping.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#63% CMGR is 42.6% a year, which is slower than Asanas trailing 12 months of growth (48.74%) and only a bit faster than Smartsheet (36.88%), which are trading at 15.9 and 13.7 projected 2021 revenue respectively. At $38m in ARR that means that at 1.3bn you'd be paying 24x 2021 revenue, which seems a bit expensive compared to Asana (obviously a different product, but similar buyers, market, cost structure, and monetization)
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#7Slackifying e-mail sounds like a nightmare to me. Email is about perfect for what it was designed. I check it when I want to check it, few Times a day. We (as humanity) really give up more and more of our most precious resources: attention and deep focus.
Exactly this.
I said this before, but I hate the direction the workspace is going. Interruption driven work seems to become the new normal.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#8I wish people would treat including you on an email like @-mentioning them slack. It may be async, but it’s just as awful for signal to noise ratio.
I’m just about ready to give up on my inbox as a lost cause, and that’s my work inbox.
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#9This sucks. Now instead of having channels for particular topics or organizational areas etc, you have a channel for every problem or question or tedious issue someone raises.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#10I don't think I totally understand why Front paid Sacra to make this? Are they going public and are worried or....?