Every two weeks, I have coffee with a different founder. We discuss our lives, our passions, what we’ve learned, … in an intimate interview, to get to know the person behind the company.
For this thirty-seventh episode, I spoke with Rahul Vohra, co-founder of Superhuman, the company behind the self-proclaimed fastest email client ever made.
After selling his former company Rapportive to LinkedIn germany phone number data and spending some time there as a product manager, Rahul decided to take on the challenge of rethinking one of the most fundamental pieces of software for today’s knowledge worker: the email client.
As a child, Rahul dreamed of being a game developer and We each browser follows its own talk about how Superhuman taught himself to code at the age of eight, first on his own and then as a professional game developer for Runescape. It’s this gaming experience that he’s using at Superhuman to try to create the best messaging experience in the world.
We talk about how Superhuman prioritizes growth projects
his career detour to start a PhD in machine learning, how playing Dungeons & Dragons keeps him inspired, and why you should aim for either user growth or revenue growth—not both.
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Jeroen:
Hello Rahul, it’s a pleasure to welcome you to Founder Coffee.
Rahul:
That’s great. Thank you for inviting me.
Jeroen:
You are the co-founder of Superhuman. For cob directory those who don’t know yet, what do you do at Superhuman?
Rahul:
Superhuman is the world’s fastest email experience. We help our customers process their inboxes twice as fast as before the reply, so they engage with email faster and see their inboxes reduced to zero for the first time in years.