Mathilde Collin

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@rrhoover Hi Ryan! I'd say balancing life and work even when work gets more demanding. Startups are a rollercoaster and when things are OK, it’s easy to have a healthy balance between your work and the rest of your life. What I’ve found most difficult is to maintain this balance even when things get more tense at work. I'm not sure I've been the greatest friend, girlfriend and child in the past 2 years.

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Ryan Hoover

@rrhoover · Founder, Product Hunt

@collinmathilde I know that feeling. Fortunately, I have very understanding and patient girlfriend, friends, and parents. 🙏

Nicola Palumbo

@palumbonicola · Software Lover

how difficult was to get into Y Combinator?

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@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@palumbonicola The process is neither easy nor hard, it's pretty simple: you submit a short application and show up for a 10 minute interview. During the interview the questions are specific and important, but the jury is always benevolent. What’s hard is to come up with a project that’s promising enough for YC to invest.

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David Senra

@readbydavid

What are some books that have influenced your thinking?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@readbydavid "Doing good better" & "The hard things about hard things" are the 2 most recent ones

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Christina Bognet

@cbognet · Founder, PlateJoy

Hi Mathilde! Why do you think there are so few female founders and what can be done to get more women to start companies?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@cbognet Hey Christina ;-) Great question. I think the reason why there are so few female founders is because they don't have enough models. I wrote this article in the WSJ a year ago http://blogs.wsj.com/accelerator.... To have more women start companies, we need more models of successful CEOs that, yes, also happen to be women ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. And you're one of them!

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Daniel Lee

@dleesta · Product Manager

Conversational interfaces, conversational commerce, and bots seems to be the buzz of 2016, how do you see Front playing in these spaces?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@dleesta Front is an inbox, so conversations naturally happen there. In the future we want to make it easier for bots to hold conversations in Front, but conversational bots are _not_ the solution to every problem. We won’t be rolling out our own bot in 2016 :)

Thomas Stöcklein

@tomstocklein · FoundersFundersFuture.com

What do you like most about living in the US? What, if anything, do you miss about France?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@tomstocklein Good bread and affordable cheese, then friends & family I guess :) what I like most about the US is the overall optimistic mindset that is so often discarded as “naive” in Europe. I think it makes everyone both happier and more productive.

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Sergio Rodriguez

@lordserch · Sr Global Product Manager, PayPal

What were the main challenges that you faced in Paris? What was your main concern when you moved to SF?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@lordserch thanks for your questions! the main challenges that I faced in Paris: 1. funding (not easy when you're early stage) 2. time difference with the US 3. skepticism. The main concern that I had when I moved to SF is that I literally had no network here. YC helped a lot :-)

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The Book Mixologist

@bookmixologist · Blogger

Which tools/products did you rely on most when building Front? Thanks for your time! :-)

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@bookmixologist At Front we use, you guessed it… Front for all our external communications. We use Slack for team chat, Skype for video, Geckoboard for dashbaords, Google Drive & Dropbox for storage, Sketch for design, AWS for infrastructure, Algolia for search, and a million other products and services. Happy to provide more info here!

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Richardson Dackam

@richardsondx · Founder/Partner at Rich DX Studio

Hi Mathilde, how are you handling security at Front? Are you storing the email in one of your servers or databases?

@collinmathilde · CEO, Frontapp

@richardsondx yes, we sync the content of every inbox in our servers. One of the key features of Front is to have a unified data model for all the messages of a company. If the same conversation appears in multiple inboxes (because of Ccs), Front will create a single copy. This makes it a lot easier to build a robust collaboration layer.