Then in 2006, Chronicle acquired Mail Frontier. Sramana Mitra: What year are we talking now?
They would send us these love letters saying, “I went from being almost fired to now being a person that people love in the company.” When you’re spending all day and all night working on something, it’s a really nice feeling to get that gratification. When they tried Mail Frontier, it usually worked great for them. Fix it.” The IT department would start looking for solutions and they would try a few different offerings. Their CEO or VP would get obnoxious spam emails and would just finally walk into the IT department and say, “I’m done. Customers would regularly email us and thank us. Gleb Budman: One of the things that I’m proud of with that company was it really provided good service. Sramana Mitra: Yes, I remember Mail Frontier. It was a real company with real revenues. We had several thousand enterprise customers who were using us. We went from being just a pure anti-spam company to a full enterprise email security company, which provided both inbound and outbound protection from spam, viruses, and compliance. We raised over $25 million over four rounds and transitioned from being a consumer to an enterprise company. It company was a traditional venture-funded company. The two co-founders of that company were Pavni Diwanji and Brian Wilson. It was started off in the anti-spam space. Just come for coffee.” Fast forward two weeks, I was sitting in a chair in a small office helping get the company off the ground. I still want to do more traveling.” They were like, “Don’t work. It was from the same person.Ī few months later, I was back in the Bay Area. I definitely want to come back and help, but I’m not ready yet.” About a month or so, I got an email when I was in New Zealand. I was certain that at $5 a day, I could pretty much retire here for the rest of my life. Come back.” At this point, I was staring out at a beautiful sea with warm waters. While I was on the beach in Thailand, I got an email from one of the people from the previous company saying, “Hey, we’re starting another company. I was having a luxurious lifestyle sitting on a beach in Thailand, and traveling to New Zealand. I decided to take time off and went traveling for four months. I had been working crazy hours for a few years at that point. It was going to get acquired by ComCast and I was on the team that was working to package the assets for sale. Gleb Budman: I worked there until it went out of business. Sramana Mitra: What year did this acquisition happen?
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