Comment by dr_dshiv
Ok, please share more! Who responded and who didn’t?
Ok, please share more! Who responded and who didn’t?
I'm curious to know the topic of these emails. I never once thought to cold email the CEO of a company. (Then again maybe that's why I'm a programmer, not a CEO myself.)
Most of them are minor ideas like the ones I just copy/pasted below. But sometimes they are longer like this one: https://hub.scroll.pub/applecard/applecard.pdf
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Nope, we don't have one yet though it would be a good idea. I'm looping in Joe for this.
Thanks for the nudge!
Nathan Co-founder & CTO Help: www.airbnb.com/help Recent press: Washington Post http://bit.ly/KkEzT
On Mon, Oct 12, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com> wrote:
just curious why you don't have a favicon (or maybe it just doesn't work on my computer)?
- favicon police
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Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2019 06:19:24 -1000
Subject: Idea: OpenAI should invest in TabNine which uses GPT-2
From: Breck Yunits <breck7@gmail.com>
To: SArouter@openai.com
The product is one in a million. Hard to code without it now.
But the kid seems overworked and like he's struggling to keep up with demand (https://github.com/zxqfl/TabNine/issues/179#issuecomment-547...)
i have no idea. i've sent sam many emails. that's just one. i'm sure most of my ideas are bad, but I like to pretend that 1 in 10 are a worthwhile tip.
he (or his office/AGI reply bot) always humors me into at least believing he's listening ;)
(he has also always generously provided me with great guidance many times over the years, like when he advised me to take the MSFT offer we got in 2014, when I was on the fence, which turned out to be the right move 110%)
Years ago, after months of pushback from Apple Authorised Service Provider I decided to write an email to Tim Cook... Got a phone call soon after straight from HQ and my issue was resolved - it's sometimes worth to escalate high up if the situation is absolutely out of company values
Responds: Airbnb, Stripe, Amazon, Apple, USAA, Microsoft, OpenAI, AngelList, Mercury, Coinbase, YCombinator (up to 2022) and more.
Didn't: 23andme, VLTA, Reddit, YCombinator (post 2022)