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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

integrate seamlessly with all of your existing business tools.

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

And so we're really working towards that goal.

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

And we think that given the obvious size of the email market, there is, if we're successful, a multi-billion dollar opportunity somewhere at the end of that road.

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

So we're working our way there and just making sure that we're focused on getting to what we think could be the sort of future of enterprise communication around email.

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

Yeah, that's a great question.

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

So we're not really in this for sort of the short-term outcome.

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

While we've seen some mail companies in the past, like Mailbox or Sparrow, for example, who have achieved some kind of short- to mid-term acquisition, we're more interested in building Polymail into what we really think could be the future of enterprise communication, what we think email could look like at companies five to ten years from now.

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

So we're more focused on our sort of long-term goal in that respect.

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

We're taking it day by day and making sure that we get there.

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

So we just wrapped up our seed rounds after YC demo day was a couple of months ago.

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

So we're basically wrapped up with our round and right now just working on launching pro and getting through our next steps.

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

Yeah, so there's a good mix of both.

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

A lot of our users have been at smaller companies or sort of, you know, solo entrepreneurs where obviously there's no barrier to adopting a new technology product.

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

As soon as you start getting into larger companies, there starts to be some type of buying process involved where it's a little bit more complicated.

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

And since we are sort of a premium SaaS product, we like to go for the bottoms up adoption kind of model where there's as little friction as possible.

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

So we're seeing a good mix of smaller companies, smaller teams, early stage startups, as well as some bigger companies.

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

We have multiple users at Dropbox, Twitter, Airbnb, where a lot of the users there have just adopted the product on their own.

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

Not really.

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

I mean, if you sort of look at the timeline of Google's or Gmail's products in the past 10 years, it hasn't really changed very significantly.

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

And I think that there's a huge opportunity for innovation where Google or Microsoft even hasn't really made significant advancements there in the past 10 years or so.