Xobni demo by Bill Gates at Office Developers Conference

Xobni is a Microsoft Startup Accelerator Program partner. There are lots of benefits to the program like free software, consulting help, press releases, introductions to Microsoft people, partners, and even VCs. But this is one benefit that we didn't anticipate...a demo by Bill Gates at the Microsoft Office Developers Conference. Check out this 2 minute video of Bill talking about Xobni;

 

I knew the instant I first saw Xobni at the TechCrunch40 Conference that we should be partners. I talked to Adam Smith immediately after his presentation, and had dinner with Adam and his partner Matt Brezina that night. We sketched out how Microsoft could help Xobni, and started executing on the plan the very next day.

Microsoft is a big company, but we care deeply about startups. We can move fast and bring real value in the right situations. It doesn't always work out this well...but we try.

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Comments

[Tamir]

I been using Xobni for a couple of month now, it is very very cool tool that opens up a lot of abilities by mining the email data. It has amazing features like knowning when someone usually answer his/her email help you to get answers from that person by sending an email to them at that time.

Tamir

[Matt Brezina]

Hey Don,

The Bill G demo was a great win for our team. It was very motivating as we continue to grow the Xobni user base and help more people love email again.

We really appreciate your support. You're the man.

-Matt