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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

And then I was like, okay, this is it.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

We're scaling this up.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And by the way, VCs love this.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

If you have a...

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Because Vistas are always looking for the alpha, they're looking for the edge.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And we had like six or seven different aspects to our storyline, whether it was me personally, or my game design background, or this feelings over user requirements, or the onboarding process, or the price point, or our product market fit approach, which we haven't talked about yet.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Like, all of those together

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

made it so that the Series B, it was actually really easy.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It was like a week-long process.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And even just the storyline alone was like, wow, there's enough going on in this company that is sufficiently different and thought through from scratch that that alone was interesting to the Valley's best VCs.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

So yeah, we scaled that team.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And then the limit, the net detractor aspect continued to be important for many, many, many years.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Because it took us a long time to get to an Android app.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It took us a long time to get to an Outlook integration.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

It took us a long time to build our sales features and our Salesforce integration and our Pipedrive integration and so on and so on.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

Because this stuff just takes time, especially back then, to build to a high degree of quality.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And so what I didn't want was people signing up saying, oh, you don't have an Android app.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

And it turns out that guess what?

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

I need a mobile email app to do my email.

The a16z Show
How Superhuman Took Over Silicon Valley Email

You guys suck.