I don't think I totally understand why Front paid Sacra to make this? Are they going public and are worried or....?
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Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
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#12Slackifying 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.
To say “slackifying” is offensive to Front.
I HATE Slack. For me, it turns into a gross “pinging you” and overall is insanely annoying to be in channels and check back on information. Or, finding files or using search is Hell. Not to mention their insanely painful login experience. I am looking forward to its death at CRM.
Front is the real deal. Hands down the greatest productivity software I’ve used in YEARS. If you haven’t used it check it out. If you collaborate with a small team it will change your life.
It’s nothing like Slack...
Edit: To clarify some more. Slack and Front are for different mindsets.
Front is best when you are a project/assignment driven person. Slack is best when you are just a drone on a project/channel (if that makes sense...).
Slack also is great when the conversation is heavily one sided. Boss bugging employee. Or, someone who doesn’t know what they are doing has lots of questions for someone who knows what they are doing during a task. Which is fine and has a use.
Thinking about it, CRM should have bought Front instead. Their CRM/people integration is getting incredibly good especially as a support desk suite beyond “email”. The Slack sale is one of the greatest heist I’ve ever seen.
Looking forward to Front eating Outlook and Team’s lunch next
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#13Slackifying 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.
To say “slackifying” is offensive to Front. I HATE Slack. For me, it turns into a gross “pinging you” and overall is insanely annoying to be in channels and check back on information. Or, finding files or using search is Hell. Not to mention their insanely painful login experience. I am looking forward to its death at CRM. Front is the real deal. Hands down the greatest productivity software I’ve used in YEARS. If yo…
Came into this thread with a very negative mindset - but am persuaded by your comment, will check it out
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#14Isn't Slackifying email just Slack?
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#15Slackifying 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.
I mean you still use Front as email... except you can invite users to threads and assign them to other people and it makes doing anything with a team so much more manageable instead of forwarding things around and being unsure if they have already been handled.
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#16"We value Front at $1.3B"
[closes tab]
I mean, seriously.
Re: Front: The $1.3B Startup Slackifying Email
#17Slackifying 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.
I've had this conversation multiple times with my colleagues. One of them always argue that WhateverIsTheNewThingThatsGoingToReplaceEmail will replace email, this time for real; I argue that 10 years from now, email will still be a thing, and all these services will likely be not.
It's been at least 4-5 years of the first time we had it. I never update the "10" part.
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#18I 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.
Yeah. Email makes me sad.
I've brought a tiny bit of sanity to my Outlook inbox [0] by using many, many rules. The goal is to move an email out of my Inbox and to a folder of my choosing on receipt. I hit about 80%. (And every week or so I update the rules to try to capture more of the 20%. But the goalposts constantly move.)
I then use a search folder to show "all unread messages", group the view by "in folder", and treat that as my inbox. (It still shows messages in the actual Inbox.)
I find this very useful in removing some of the cognitive load of email.
Before:
- 10 emails arrive in Inbox.
- Email 1 is about project x. You figure that out, switch mental context to project x, action it perhaps, move on.
- Email 2 is about project y. You figure that out, switch mental context to project y, file it, move on.
- etc.
After:
- All (most) of the email regarding project x is filtered to the project x folder.
- When I choose to, I go there and do things.
- I never have to cognitively switch out of 'project x mode' until I choose to.
Setting up and maintaining the rules is a pain in the ass, and Outlook fights you at every turn. But for me it's 100% worth the effort.
[0]: Corporate environment, so it's not like I can use any of these funky cloud services. It's what I got.
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#19Call me old-school, but I still don't buy into these "revenue multiple" nonsense. Traditional valuation metrics like PER, EV/EBITDA, DCF etc. all tie back in one way or another to the cashflow-generating potential of a company.
Revenue multiples have, at best, only tenuous relationship to cashflow. If you sell $10 notes for $1, in theory you can have infinite revenue.
I wish investors would just stop pretending tech valuation these days have anything to do with financials, which is actually fine.
Maybe it is time we shift what we think the equity market is about. Nowadays its less a place to go looking for returns and more one-giant-PATREON where you buy a stake just because you are a fan.
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#20Can people still passive-aggressively cc my boss on emails to me when they want me to drop everything to work on their special issue?