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Weekly series · 2 episodes

Open Rate

How companies grew through the inbox: email lists, daily sends and lifecycle campaigns, told one company at a time, every week.

  1. Episode 1

    Groupon: the email list that built a $12.7B IPO

    Groupon grew from 1.8 million to 83 million subscribers in 15 months, went public at $12.7B, then lost about 80% of its value. Episode 1 of Open Rate.

    · 5 min read

  2. Episode 2

    Harry's: 100,000 emails before the first razor

    Harry's collected over 100,000 email addresses in a week before launch, 77% of them through referrals. Episode 2 of Open Rate.

    · 6 min read

New episode every week.