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Rahul Vohra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
739 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

Podcast Appearances

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

So those were the initial motivations.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It was...

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

control the blast radius, make sure every single person became a net promoter, and also use it as a way to build the best possible product, to truly understand what people wanted, to understand about email workflows we didn't understand, of which there are plenty.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

We built for us, as soon as we hit the market, we started encountering other email workflows.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

That's fine, that's normal.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

We just have to start catering for those workflows and also find all the bugs and fix all the bugs.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Then we noticed something really, really weird.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

which is the metrics for these users were off the charts.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Like, the activation was crazy.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

The retention was crazy.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

The virality was crazy.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

The net promoter score was crazy.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Our ARR was just sort of like going up without coming down in any way, like the churn was surprisingly low.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And so I looked at that and I was like, huh, like, am I just that compelling?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

People love it so much.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

So my brother used to work for the company.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

He was our head of growth at the time.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

I was like, why don't you go do this?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Let's just disambiguate whether it's me or the process.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Yeah, and he did it.