Sramana Mitra: It remains to be seen. The last question is if you look at the trends, what are some open problems? Not what you’re solving but problems that you see out there that you think needs to be solved and you recommend other entrepreneurs go after and solve. Georges Lotigier: I think there are
Sramana Mitra: I have one last question which is slightly in a different direction. I was recently at a seminar. One of the events in the seminar was a kid’s panel. All these various age groups were saying that they hardly use email. They use messaging. They use Facebook Messenger, WhatsApp, and all these messaging
Sramana Mitra: The question that still lingers in my mind is from a user’s point of view, people are getting signed-up for newsletters by marketeers left, right, and center. I get signed-up for random email newsletters all the time that I have not signed up for. This is becoming a standard practice in the email
Sramana Mitra: There are a couple of points that I want to explore that are beyond cyber criminals. There is a question that arises out of all the things that you said, which is about email marketing. Email marketing is not a cyber criminal activity. Email marketing is a legitimate form of marketing that people
Sramana Mitra: That’s interesting. Of course, email volume is going to continue to go up. The volume of spam and unsolicited email is going to go up. Email marketing is going up. People who are sending you marketing messages through email is going up. This is one part of the trend. How and what do
Sramana Mitra: Let’s double-click down a bit. When you talk about email filtering management, email started becoming mainstream back in, let’s say, 1995. For 20 years, email filtering has been around. Can you talk about the evolution of where it was and where it is now, and why what you’re doing is significant? Georges Lotigier:
Email security and the future of email is our topic of conversation in this interview. Very intersting discussion on email marketing as well. Sramana Mitra: Let’s start with a bit of background about Vade Retro. Tell us about the company. Tell us a bit about yourself. Georges Lotigier: I am a serial entrepreneur. We were