By Larry Chiang
It’s very street smart to cold call people. Cold email is a version of distribution. Distribution is where you network and distribute yourself.
Cold email was taught at AKpsi at Stanford. I’m an honorary Delta Sigma Pi because I guessed at what DSP taught their members. I got to keynote Delta Sigma Pi leadership retreat in Miami of Ohio.
There will be no keynote on “cold emailingâ€
Guess at email addresses
Google email address.
Email people.
Re-email people.
Ricky Yean (@rickyyean) | |
Thread got me digging up extremely cringe-worthy cold emails from college. Ended up working for both â¦â€ª@coreyreese‬⩠and â¦â€ª@kevinhartz‬⩠even though there weren’t job postings. Yes I leaned into that Stanford cred pretty hard and I had no idea how to email 😅 pic.twitter.com/mzojt2D7Nf
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Cecilia Corral (@ceciliacorral) | |
â¦â€ª@rickyyean‬⩠â¦â€ª@coreyreese‬⩠â¦â€ª@kevinhartz‬⩠Was this before or after AKPsi taught email? 🤔😂
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Guess at email.
Email people.
Re-email people.
Ask a specific question inside a cold email.
Read something about them and expand inside another cold email.
So many VCs got their early start cold calling people.