Rahul Vohra

But email doesn't actually check those boxes.

Email is... Now there is collaboration in Superhuman, but even today, it's still primarily a single-player experience.

20% of the use case, perhaps, is collaborative and multiplayer.

And...

Because of that, you don't have the pull of other people bringing you back.

There are some pulls, right?

Your reminders are not going to manifest in quite the same way in Gmail.

Back then, we didn't have split inbox, but things like split inbox are now a reason to come back.

Things like the AI and the calendar, those are all now reasons to come back.

But in those early days, we didn't have those things except for...

The search was fast.

It was really pretty.

It has keyboard shortcuts.

The feel would pull you back.

But if you were a lazy user or we hadn't quite sold you yet, then you'd be back in Gmail.

I took all of this in and at the same time, I saw how easy it was becoming

to get an initial set of users to try your product, right?

It is not hard for any one of us to throw something out there and with a little bit of grit, get 10,000 people to sign up, right?

That is used to be impressive, super not impressive these days.

You can get 10, 20, 30,000 people to sign up for basically anything.