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Mathilde Collin

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
191 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So first to make money for the investors, I think going public is a better bet.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So we'll try to do that.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

But I think, you know, a lot of companies from Microsoft, Salesforce, etc.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

have acquired email companies.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

I think it makes a lot of sense for them.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

but also 100% of those companies who have been acquired shut down.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And I think it will be very hard to keep our product.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

We try to make Front as a platform, integrate with third-party tools, integrate with every channel that you use to communicate with your customers.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And I think we could not do that if we were acquired.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And so it's really true that if we want to achieve our mission, which is reinventing emails for our team, I think an acquisition is not...

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

It's probably the best way to be rich in the short term, but I think it's not the best way to have as many active users as we'd like to have.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

No, I would say that we've iterated a lot on the product, so both on the features and the design.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

I think it's very hard to get it right because email is very sensitive and people don't like changing their email habits.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And so number one would be people that dislike how fast we've changed core features.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

Yeah, even, you know, like I think I understand that people don't like to change on something that critical.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

But because we were so early in our product, I think it's important for us to test a lot of different things.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

And it's not super pleasant in the short term when we have people that live, but we think it's a good investment in the long term.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

So our goal is 10% every month net growth.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

We'll see.

SaaS Interviews with CEOs, Startups, Founders
EP 413: SaaS, $242k MRR, $13 Million Raised to Re-Invent Business Email with Mathilde Collin of FrontApp

I don't know.