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Patrick McKenzie

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I work for the Internet, at @stripe, mostly on accelerating startups. Opinions here are my own.

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    Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Dec 2019
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    Patrick McKenzie Retweeted brian trautschold

    My favorite heuristic for viable B2B software businesses: any spreadsheet routinely emailed with the instruction “Edit this and email it back to me.”https://twitter.com/BTrautschold/status/1205505881837916160 …

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    brian trautschold @BTrautschold
    College use, definitely big. But something your coworkers use? Very Big Something that replaces that spreadsheet that so-and-so in the other department has to update whenever someone remembers to ask? Absolutely Massive https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1205502880318468098 …
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      2. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Dec 2019
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        That business process is a SaaS app waiting to happen. It will be faster, more reliable, cheaper (once you back out the cost of employee time), and likely benefit from having a lot more brain power deployed against it by the SaaS company than by either of the ends of the email.

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Dec 2019
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        Have you ever had to have a spreadsheet to track how many people filled out the spreadsheet so that you can email them about the email to fill out your spreadsheet? Nobody went to college because they want to do that. The SaaS app will merrily cronjob it’s way through that.

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      2. Bhavik Chinai‏ @BhavikChinai 13 Dec 2019
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        Replying to @patio11

        Don't you think an improved spreadsheet is the only preferred solution by the mass? Eg: Excel on cloud preferred over yet another niche unintegrated app

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      3. Patrick McKenzie‏ @patio11 13 Dec 2019
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        Replying to @BhavikChinai

        You don’t need to compete with Excel to do something that thousands of companies need to do. Excel is ubiquitous and flexible but it is not integrated. Every spreadsheet is its own uncontrolled, unmaintianable, niche software produced by a startup that will go out of business.

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      1. Michele Hansen‏ @mjwhansen 13 Dec 2019
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        Seriously folks, listen to Patrick on this one. Our business is partly in this market. If you can save people the hassle of manual spreadsheet work, it’s amazing how quickly they sell themselves the product.

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      2. Kameron Kales‏ @Kameronkales 13 Dec 2019
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        Replying to @patio11 @dantelex

        1 product I think about a lot. A way to pipe emails into a dashboard. define a schema, and set up auto-forward. yes, companies can roll their own, but not a priority. but very valuable to sr mgmt to track important data.

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      3. huffhienz‏ @huffhienz 13 Dec 2019
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        Replying to @Kameronkales @patio11 @dantelex

        That seems to be what Superhuman email is working towards.

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      2. Tony Oliverio‏ @aeoliverio 13 Dec 2019
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        @Cube_FPA building an impressive product

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      3. Josh Holat‏ @joshholat 18 Dec 2019
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        Replying to @aeoliverio @patio11

        👋🏼 Thanks for the love! Happy to chat with either of you about our approach here if you’re interested in learning more.

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      1. Aditya Khanduri‏ @AdityaKhanduri 13 Dec 2019
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        @AntoineScalia We seem to be on the right track here 😅

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