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Hey all, Will here, co-creator of Nova. We're just opening up Nova for sign-ups and we wanted to get the HN community's feedback.

The idea is that our product helps salespeople write fewer, more empathetic/higher quality emails and get better results than by just sending templates to thousands of people (which is what most companies these days actually do).

I saw the benefit of personalizing emails at CloudFlare, but it took way too much time and didn't scale. Nonetheless, personalization drove significant improvements in engagement and general positivity. We created Nova to solve the problem.

Love to get any feedback on the tech, the idea, etc. Open to any and all suggestions. Thanks!

This is something that every non-technical manager needs to read.

Cool article -- I think the most important thing going into any job is that you're absolutely enthralled with the opportunity.

Patrick, it's never easy and the real world is complicated. As much as "YOLO" has become overplayed, I do believe that time is our greatest asset.

As for hiring interns based on emails... well... :)

With its price-to-earnings multiple in the stratosphere, Amazon often comes up in conversation as being "overpriced." While this conclusion may be true, it's not because Amazon is unprofitable...

Publicly traded companies optimize for return-on-invested-capital (ROIC), which includes profits (dividends) plus increases in equity value (share price).

Stable companies in stable markets often make the greatest returns by increasing revenue and reducing costs (i.e., optimizing for earnings). Companies in high-growth markets (esp. competitive ones) typically optimize for long-term market share/growth (which manifests as increases in equity value). Amazon falls into the latter category.

Not sure this makes sense to/helps anyone, but yeah, that's why Amazon operates the way it does.

Get big fast. Amazon is still getting bigger, and accelerating the pace recently.

The "low margin retailer" comments about AWS are funny too. AWS is effectively a billion dollar company, eligible for HUGE subsidies (from retail), under effectively no pressure for revenue/profits, and is ok with 3% margins. That sounds like a nightmare to compete with.

Also, Ben Horowitz apparently not a fan of "bitch ass ness"