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16 Nov 2023, 08:00 AM | #1 |
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Fastmail now has 400,000 users
Diving into some history of Fastmail and Pobox with Helen Horstmann-Allen, cofounder of Pobox and now coo at Fastmail.
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8 Dec 2023, 02:06 AM | #2 |
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Interesting. With ~400,000 paying users, it seems they must have minimum of $20m revenue. Not bad!
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8 Dec 2023, 02:54 AM | #3 |
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Congrats fastmail!!
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8 Dec 2023, 09:51 PM | #4 |
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I wonder if a company counts as one user, or do they count each individual email account? My guess would be they count each individual using Fastmail. I also wonder how many of them are POBox.com users?
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9 Dec 2023, 07:24 AM | #6 |
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If you clisk CTRL+A and then CTRL+C fast enough you can then paste the rext into notepad and read it. And when you read it you see that it's not really Fastmail's history but more sort of POBox's short history (Founded in Philadelphia in 1995, bought by this Australian email service about 20 years later).
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9 Dec 2023, 01:35 PM | #7 |
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No history of Fastmail would be complete without mentioning Jeremy Howard. Those were the days!
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10 Dec 2023, 12:42 AM | #11 | |
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10 Dec 2023, 02:38 AM | #12 |
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“Fastmail, which traces its roots to POBox.com (Pobox), an email service started in a West Philadelphia dorm room in 1995.”
That way of characterizing the history suprised me a bit. An archived copy of the article, not behind a paywall: https://archive.is/hYxcx Last edited by Folio : 10 Dec 2023 at 02:49 AM. |
11 Dec 2023, 03:11 PM | #13 |
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11 Dec 2023, 08:40 PM | #14 |
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6 Jan 2024, 05:22 AM | #15 |
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I will not renew fastmail
the prices are not justified. so soon, when my subscription expires, fastmail will have one less user... after 16 years of use.
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