Hey. It's me. Every @CustomerIO account can now send In-App Messages on mobile (iOS / Android) and web 😲.
💥LFG 📱💻
customer.io/in-app-message…
Colin Nederkoorn
10.8K posts
Colin Nederkoorn
@alphacolin
Founder & CEO at @customerio
- Good news everyone! @customerio Data Pipelines is now in General Access. If you sign up in the next 30 days, you can use it totally free until January 1, 2024. After that you'll have 1 million free data points a month and it'll always be zero-rated to send to @customerio
00:00- Good news everyone, @CustomerIO completed our first acquisition: @gistproduct, an in-app messaging solution. 📱💻 customer.io/blog/welcoming… 👇
- People will tell you the price of your software is too high whether you charge $5 or $5000. What they're really saying is they didn't get the value to justify what they were spending. Focus on delivering value before messing with price.
- Replying to @DanGroverConsistent with that guy who went viral the other day saying that the US impression that China just throws human labor at problems is very wrong.The 7 major ways China has changed between 2019 and 2024
00:00 - Hey. @customerio raised a Series A round of financing from Spectrum Equity. Series A? Yup 🤷♂️. We raised a series seed ('13), series seed 2 ('17) and crowdfunding ('21). I didn’t have a better letter to use so we’re going with it. customer.io/blog/customer-… (1/7)
- The app is called Robinhood. What did you expect people were going to do with it?
- Get ready: @customerio is going to be doing a crowdfunding round soon. 🧵Let me tell you a little bit more. customer.io/blog/crowdfund…
- One of the things I'm most proud of this year is that @customerio did well enough that we could donate money at the end of the year. We're committing up to $1000 per team member. That's $67,000. 1/
- As a parent I’m always looking for ways to save time. I taught my kids how to add things directly on to our grocery list with just their voices. Now when I go to the supermarket I know I’m going to get the things they like.
- Started reading Marc Benioffs book. It begins with him taking 3 months off and living in a hut on a Hawaiian beach and swimming with dolphins. I asked my wife if I could do that. She said no.
- In the right circumstances any one of us can be deceived by someone telling us what we, deep down, want to be true.In 2017, I interviewed with Elizabeth Holmes to be Head of Finance at Theranos. I'm convinced I learned more in those 45 minutes than I did in 10 years of school and work. So when I heard Elizabeth was on trial I couldn't help but recall that moment. Time for a story 🧵 :
- We'll pay ~$1m in taxes for 2023 directly because of Section 174. In 2022 software companies lost the ability to deduct R&D from taxes. This money would have been reinvested in hiring people and growing our business. But hey, at least my kid can have full fat milk now.
