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This thread is about "selling customer data", not "cold outreach." But since you brought it up, cold outreach for B2B is not considered spam, as long as they c
by gkoberger 11y ago
This thread is about "selling customer data", not "cold outreach."
But since you brought it up, cold outreach for B2B is not considered spam, as long as they comply with the following: https://www.leadfuze.com/cold-email-outreach-isnt-spam-heres-why/ https://www.leadfuze.com/cold-email-outreach-isnt-spam-heres...
Not everything legal is ethical, but in this case it seems more annoying than unethical. I hate cold outreach emails and my company doesn't send them, but concluding that YC doesn't care about being ethical because the former president of YC tweets about a company that sends cold outreach emails seems like a stretch.
- thaumaturgy 11y agoYou're right, I've veered some discussion away from the original topic, sorry. I wanted to focus more on YC's role in this, if any. (As my final word on it however, Zenefits specifically was not sending "cold outreach emails", it was bona-fide spam. But, they're far from alone in this anyway, which was my main point.)