{"id":3453,"date":"2017-08-12T05:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T05:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/freshinbox.com\/blog\/?p=3453"},"modified":"2017-09-12T21:29:20","modified_gmt":"2017-09-12T21:29:20","slug":"my-interview-with-mailchimp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freshinbox.com\/blog\/my-interview-with-mailchimp\/","title":{"rendered":"My Interview With MailChimp"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was interviewed by the folks at MailChimp<\/a> for a newsletter series they were doing on interactive email. <\/p>\n

FreshInbox: On a Mission to Take Interactive Email Mainstream<\/h4>\n

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FreshInbox founder Justin Khoo\u200a\u2014\u200awho started his career as an internet engineer for GE, built websites for startups during the dot-com boom, and worked on early voice recognition technology for mobile devices\u200a\u2014\u200ahas spent his entire career pushing the web to be better. And in email, he sees a lot of room for improvement.<\/p>\n

\u201cEmail really got stuck,\u201d Khoo says. \u201cYou couldn\u2019t do cool things with it, because if you tried something too ambitious, it wouldn\u2019t work across clients. And the email services didn\u2019t seem too interested in fixing it.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when Khoo came up with an idea. What if he founded a site that could serve as a resource for programmers and coders while prodding email services to do better?<\/p>\n

Read the rest on the MailChimp Blog…<\/a><\/p>\n



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