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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 I think... Do you think there's a reason for that, though?

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

Right.

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

So for Gmail specifically, I think it's, you know, at the end of the day, they make money from ad revenue.

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

And so they're, you know, it's in their best interest to make as generic or general as a consumer email product as possible to get as many users as possible so they can monetize off of advertisements.

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

And so for us, we're more focused on delivering value to the end user who is a business user for companies who sort of need these much more advanced features that we're providing through our product.

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

You can find me on Twitter at at Fooley WK.

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

My favorite CEO is probably Aaron Levy, CEO of Box.

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

Honestly, when I was 20, I was in school, and if there's any advice I could give myself, it was probably to focus less on school itself, I think.

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

Where I am today, the amount of work that I put into getting good grades hasn't really helped me that much, and I would have spent more time working on side projects, working on things that could eventually become companies.

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