How Fast Did You Land on That Lake?

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Speed was a value prop from very early on. It came out of some of the frustrations developing reportive on gmal. In that first year of superhuman, as we were primarily building, we threw up a a landing page which took us two hours to put together. And all you could do on this page was throw in your email address and get an automatic email from me. So we had to validate that. Probably weigh more than most founders would actually do. But resoundingly, those two hypotheses were confirmed. People disliked gima for the speed and the lack of off line and the clutter and the pluggins. And people disliked third party emal aps because of the stability and

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We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Superhuman, the red hot email productivity app which just announced their $33m Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. While originally intended as an LP episode, we felt Superhuman would provide the perfect bookend to our “modern enterprise productivity trilogy” following our Zoom and Slack episodes. We hope you enjoy the conversation with Rahul as much as we did, and we’ll see you later this summer for Season 5!

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