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The company that truly improves email will be a fixture and a household name. Its a devilishly hard problem, though. But one with immense potential.

I think a big limitation of current attempts are the focus on closed teams/enterprises and making a "clean break" from email. WhatsApp seamlessly bridged a gap between modern messaging and telecom to produce grand success — the same can be done with email.

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Email is still a necessary component because it fills a specific need. Where tools like Slack and Sharepoint help solve specific problems, Email is a good general purpose tool for both short and long conversations, plus sending out links to other tools.

I think the problem is not email itself, but email clients and their pathetic inability to order your inbox correctly.

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