GMass, Inc.

GMass Update: How We Reached 1 Million Users

Ajay Goel
Founder, GMass, Inc.
$450K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
GMass, Inc.
from Dayton, Ohio, USA
started September 2015
$450,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
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Hello again! Remind us who you are and what business you started.

I’m Ajay. I’m a software developer and I created GMass.

GMass is an extension for Gmail that makes it easy to send email campaigns using Gmail. Our customers range from cold emailers to traditional email marketers to moms and dads and teachers and church pastors. Anyone that needs to send a low-volume, highly-targeted email campaign makes a good fit for GMass.

GMass has had just shy of 1 million total user signups since launch. It’s one of the most popular Gmail Chrome extensions on the Chrome Web Store. Almost every major tech company you can think of has at one point been a GMass client, including Twitter, LinkedIn, Uber, Lyft, Salesforce.com, Indeed, and Snapchat. GMass has become so popular at some companies, with rogue employees signing up at will and paying for it themselves without company approval, that their corporate IT departments have banned GMass, deeming it a security risk since they haven’t vetted and approved it. We recently had a team of 50 at Google that wanted to use GMass. I was so excited! But for some reason, we just couldn’t get GMass to work on their company-assigned laptops. After days of pulling my hair...

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