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Brandon Foo

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
109 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And so we're able to sort of reactivate previous users.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And we have a good understanding of what are those features that they're waiting for so we can notify them when they're ready.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And Brandon, how much have you guys raised?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We have raised just around a million dollars, including YC's investment.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Uh, we use convertible equity.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So it's the YC document is called a safe.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Exactly.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So similar to a convertible note, but there's, there's no debt component.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Okay.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And what about team size?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

What are you at right now?

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So we're still a pretty small team actually.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

It's just about five of us.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So three co-founders and a couple of employees.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

We've been able to stay pretty lean so far.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Interesting.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

Yeah, so our goal and our vision for the company is really to build this platform for external communication on top of email.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

So we've seen Slack build this tremendous platform for internal communication on chat.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And on the flip side, with external communication, there's no analog.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 480: YC Backed Polymail Raises $1M, hits 20k Users with CEO Brandon Foo

And given that email is sort of a really critical productivity tool for almost every single business, we believe that there's a huge opportunity there to create this analogous platform that provides a really great end-user experience