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Gerald Fong

CEO & Co-Founder, Elucify

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Joined on January 20th, 2016

142 points

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@andhugg Hey Andrew, we will soon be releasing an opt out feature where people can remove themselves from our database. The two precautions we have in place to stop people from spamming are 1. we limit the amount of data that people can pull from our system -- if users hit a certain data limit, we will automatically freeze their account for review. 2. In order to sign up for an account, a user must use an email account tied to a business domain (not @gmail.com, @yahoo.com, @hotmail.com etc). This is a proxy for determining which accounts are doing legitimate business (and not trying to sell viagra, or resell our data etc). Over time we will implement more methods to make sure only reputable businesses receive data from us by 1. checking what their registered domain sender score is and 2. cross referencing their business domain with our internal database of businesses. However, we do not want to create so many hurdles that only big established businesses but no startups are able to use our product as well. We will constantly be battling to make sure we only let in users selling legitimate products with legitimate emailing methods. I have previously worked on Stripe's risk team and saw the various fraud fighting techniques they used to let in legitimate merchants instead of those trying to launder money or test credits cards to be resold on black markets. Finally, if people fall through the cracks, there is also an enormous and well built out domain reputation system built by gmail and various other spam protection companies which make it very difficult for users to send mass amounts of emails if users repeatedly mark them as spam. We have a very strong vested interest in making sure email as a channel is here to stay and have seen first hand cold how out bound emailing is the life blood of an enormous number of businesses, big and small all over the US.

4yr ago

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@ufo_nguyen Hey Ufo! Good questions -- we will be coming out with an opt out where their contact will no longer be in our database. We do not notify people that people have been added to our system. However, our system does have over a million contacts so it is not likely that that person will suddenly be reached out to significantly more (compared to everyone else in our system). Those are interesting ideas about limiting who they are exposed to! Happy to continue the conversation as we grow -- we are always walking a fine line with our product of enabling good products to get heard about and also respecting people's privacy to opt out of messages they don't want.

4yr ago

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@wilhempujar @peresztegi Good clarification! I was mainly commenting on only Clearbit Connect, Clearbit has some other good services out there! (Fraud, logos, etc) The CEO and I know each other personally as well.

4yr ago