Guest: Troy Goode is the Co-founder & CEO of Courier. He is a multi startup veteran, a Y Combinator veteran, and was a prior guest on the Code Story podcast, in Season 4.
Questions:
Tell me about the recent fundraise with Google Ventures.
Considering the success of Courier, it seems like you are in a place where you can choose your investors. Why Google Ventures?
Enhanced mobile functionality is a new focus – what is planned on the roadmap?
Earlier we talked to Eric from Lattice, who mentioned notifications support 50% of their engagement. We spoke with Pat at Matrix who mentioned you being a significant piece of layer 2 infrastructure. And, we spoke to Vatasha, one of your Sr. Engineers, who spoke of how empowering the app was to use as a customer. Keep the movie playing forward – where do you see this going?
How are you educating your customers on treating your notifications as a part of your user experience?