[Angel Investing] E2E Encryption Keyservers with Ashoat Tevosyan

<p>See their public Notion doc which got me very interested: <a href="https://www.notion.so/Comm-4ec7bbc1398442ce9add1d7953a6c584">https://www.notion.so/Comm-4ec7bbc1398442ce9add1d7953a6c584</a></p><p>They are hiring: <a href="https://www.notion.so/commapp/We-re-hiring-b0a4cef3f8b34b8c91e3236c98aabcb3">https://www.notion.so/commapp/We-re-hiring-b0a4cef3f8b34b8c91e3236c98aabcb3</a></p><p>Watch the video version if you prefer that (there is some screensharing at the end): <a href="https://youtu.be/lWCOruAWpW4">https://youtu.be/lWCOruAWpW4</a></p><p>---</p><p><strong>Transcript</strong></p><p><strong>swyx: </strong>[00:00:00] Some of you might know that I do some angel investing on the side and I keep a cold email address open for that purpose. So a few weeks ago I was called emailed from someone trying to raise money for an end to end encryption startup. And that's something that I don't normally play in because they don't know anything about encryption.</p><p><br>So I almost turned this down except I click through and read their notion doc. And it's the most comprehensive and concise pitch I've ever received through a cold email. So I took the meeting and this conversation with Ashoat is what happened. He's building Comm, which is an end to end encryption startup, but his go to market is an alternative end to end self hosted version of discord, focused on privacy.</p><p>Of course. The long term vision is that it could replace Dropbox, Gmail, Facebook, Mint, 1Password, and so on. If he gets this key server protocol right, and successful, he gets some kind of market adoption. So that's a very big if, but the upside is also huge. And whenever you encounter one of these things, that becomes a very interesting angel investment because you'll probably lose your money, but if it succeeds, it succeeds very big.</p><p>He's looking to hire senior engineers and a product and a design lead. So stick towards the end for those hiring and collaboration details. If you are interested, all right. Enjoy. </p><p><br></p><p>