good emails

A candidate just pulled a brilliant salary negotiation move: Most ppl: “If you don’t increase my salary to $X, I won’t join.” This candidate: “I’m going to join, even if you don’t increase my salary to $X, but I’d LOVE if you did!” She got the full salary increase. 🎉

My favorite examples of shooting your shot: 1. Elon Musk cold-calling rocket expert Jim Cantrell to convince him to help him colonize Mars in 65 words (the pitch worked).

Email from @david_perell to @tylercowen ✅ Personalized ✅ Social Proof ✅ Clear CTA Amazing email—that led to some amazing things. The personal touches at the beginning show clear effort. Tons of social proof (Neil deGrasse Tyson, Seth Godin). Clear CTA and plan of attack.

Email to Evan Spiegel ✅ Short & Sweet ✅ Social Proof ✅ Clear CTA Brilliant example of effective brevity. Any high school junior who has done this much and is bold enough to make this ask deserves to be taken seriously.

Got an email from a student looking for an internship in private equity. Here's my response: Hope it helps someone else trying to break into a new field.

If you write every cold email like it might change your life, one may. If you don't, none will.

This email from @sama was very special to receive in 2018 when I was starting my first venture and for that personal kindness I have a lot of respect for him 🙏 I know the future is bright for you and with you as our leader into AGI.

New Peloton CEO emails employees February 8, 2022

One cold email can completely change your life. Here’s how to write a great one:

Here's another cold email from a stranger -> job at @stripe. 📧🌟 This one is extra special because it has the twist that we *created a new role* for this great person and they took @faderp's Applied probability models in marketing course. These facts are highly correlated!