Superhuman (with CEO Rahul Vohra)
Acquired
Ben Gilbert and David Rosenthal
4.8 • 2.9K Ratings
🗓️ 27 June 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
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We wrap up Season 4 with a very special (and accidental!) episode, a conversation with the CEO of Superhuman, the red hot email productivity app which just announced their $33m Series B led by Andreessen Horowitz. While originally intended as an LP episode, we felt Superhuman would provide the perfect bookend to our “modern enterprise productivity trilogy” following our Zoom and Slack episodes. We hope you enjoy the conversation with Rahul as much as we did, and we’ll see you later this summer for Season 5!
Sponsors:
Vanta: https://bit.ly/acquiredvanta
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Links
- New York Times article announcing the fundraise: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/27/technology/superhuman-email.html
- Rahul’s Medium post on acquisitions: https://medium.com/swlh/rip-mailbox-or-founders-how-to-stop-worrying-and-love-being-acquired-261da4f6d566
- Rahul on finding product-market fit on First Round Review: https://firstround.com/review/how-superhuman-built-an-engine-to-find-product-market-fit/
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Great. |
| 0:02.0 | One take feels good. Welcome to Season 4 episode 10, the finale of acquired, the podcast about technology acquisitions and IPOs. I'm Ben Gilbert. I'm |
| 0:25.4 | David Rosenthal and we are your hosts. Today we are covering Superhuman, the |
| 0:30.5 | fastest email experience ever made. |
| 0:33.0 | This show was originally going to be a limited partner bonus show |
| 0:36.0 | with superhuman CEO Raoul Vora |
| 0:39.0 | on understanding his algorithmic approach to find product market fit. |
| 0:43.2 | But we realized that Superhuman was a perfect way |
| 0:46.2 | to round out our trilogy on the modern productivity |
| 0:48.8 | stack on the heels of our Zoom and Slack IPO episodes. And we learned that the timing would be perfect with some big news that just dropped for Superhuman. Indeed. Well they just raised their 33 million dollar Series B funding led by Andresen Horowitz on the heels of some very rapid growth as you'll hear. |
| 1:07.7 | If you want to read more about the company after this episode, you can click the link in the |
| 1:10.9 | show notes for the New York Times article that broke the news. |
| 1:14.0 | Our next sponsor of this episode is Net Suite. |
| 1:17.7 | Many of you, especially those at successful large organizations, likely know the name Net Suite. |
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| 1:48.0 | 36,000 is the number of businesses that have upgraded to NetSuite by Oracle. NetSuite is the number one cloud |
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| 2:00.0 | 25. NetSuite turns 25 this year. |
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