Long live email: San Francisco startup, Front, wants to make you like your inbox again
Cofounders Mathilde Collin and Laurent Perrin faced personal hardships even as they reinvented corporate inboxes. He received, and beat, a cancer diagnosis; she suffered a breakdown caused in part by the ensuing stress. Now their company is worth $800 million.as she walked into a building overlooking the Tower of London, worried that she’d seem “too San Francisco” to the executives running a shipping broker that had recently celebrated its 134th birthday.
Unlike others who have been quick to declare the “death” of email—Slack rode a mission to replace it all the way to a stock debut last year—Collin and her cofounder, Laurent Perrin, 38, believe that the problem with the years-old protocol, dominated by Microsoft Outlook and Google’s Gmail, is in the packaging, not the product.
With about a dozen test companies onboard, the cofounders flew to California to interview for prestigious startup accelerator Y Combinator’s summer 2014 program. Collin got to pitch partners including the creators of Gmail and Yahoo Mail. Expecting profound feedback, she instead received a simple message: Follow your growth. “There was something about her, a competitiveness and assuredness, that spoke to us,” says Geoff Ralston, Yahoo Mail’s creator, who is now president of Y Combinator.
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