good emails
just really effing good emails - many of them are cold emails
sari and
good emails
One year since the best "job pitch" I've ever received.
Lesson: Shoot your shot.
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. 🎉
how to ask for a salary raise 💯
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!
this REJECTION EMAIL from a product designer I cold emailed is kinder and more value add than emails I've gotten from 99% of VCs lol
If you write every cold email like it might change your life, one may.
If you don't, none will.
One cold email can completely change your life.
Here’s how to write a great one:
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.
