Notifications North Star - Troy Goode, Courier

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🗓️ 22 June 2022

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Notifications North Star, sponsored by Courier! Guest: Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4. Questions: Tell me about the recent fundraise with Google Ventures. Considering the success of Courier, it seems like you are in a place where you can choose your investors. Why Google Ventures? Enhanced mobile functionality is a new focus - what is planned on the roadmap? Earlier we talked to Eric from Lattice, who mentioned notifications support 50% of their engagement. We spoke with Pat at Matrix who mentioned you being a significant piece of layer 2 infrastructure. And, we spoke to Vatasha, one of your Sr. Engineers, who spoke of how empowering the app was to use as a customer. Keep the movie playing forward - where do you see this going? How are you educating your customers on treating your notifications as a part of your user experience? Links https://www.courier.com/ Our Sponsors: * Check out Kinsta: https://kinsta.com * Check out Red Hat: https://www.redhat.com * Check out Vanta: https://vanta.com/CODESTORY Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/code-story/donations Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	Welcome back, listeners. Today we are dropping another episode in our series titled The Notifications North Star, sponsored by our good friends Courier.
0:09.9	Courier is developer infrastructure for product notifications, making it easier to deliver the notification experience that your customers expect.
0:17.9	In our series, we'll be talking to customers, developers, and stakeholders within the
0:22.1	notification space to learn about their notification strategy, how important it is, and how
0:26.6	Currier is helping to solve this problem for product builders and developers alike.
0:32.1	Well, today I have a special guest on the Code Story podcast again. Troy Good, the founder and CEO of Currier. He's a
0:39.6	multi-startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran. And as I mentioned, he's a prior guest on Code Story
0:45.4	Season 4. Troy, thank you for being on Code Story today. Hey, Noah. Thanks for having me back. It's
0:50.8	great to see you. Before we go too far, and for those that may have forgotten
0:54.4	since season four, tell my audience a little bit about you. Look, I'm an engineer by trade software
0:59.9	development for a couple of decades now and have led engineering teams for startups for most of my
1:06.2	career. But more recently, I'm the founder and CEO of Currier. We're a software development platform that helps power notifications for software companies across the world.
1:16.2	So I've got to know more.
1:17.0	I've read the headlines.
1:18.1	I've talked to the team.
1:19.7	Tell me about the big raise from Google Ventures, the $35 million raise.
1:24.1	Tell me more about that.
1:25.7	We're incredibly excited to be partnering with
1:28.0	Sangine Zeb and Google Ventures, as well as our existing investors who participated in the round.
1:33.8	You know, it's been, it's been a wild three years. So we started the company in April of 2019,
1:39.0	raised our first couple of rounds of funding quite early and then just went heads down, building the best product
1:45.4	that we could build. And building, candidly, the product that I wished I had and the reason
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