The World's First Cold Email Hackathon

On Nov 23, I had a question.

What would happen if ppl came together to write life-changing cold emails in 7 days.

I knew the outcomes would be magical but first I wanted to prove it myself.
So I gave myself the same constraint.

In under 7 days, I cold-emailed my way into:

> A Sam Altman–backed company partnering with the event

> A Founder Fund sponsoring the prize pool

> Jay Yang and Farza agreeing to judge the hackathon

I shared the experiment publicly reaching 300,000+ views across X, Instagram, and LinkedIn.

On Dec 1, I officially kicked off the hackathon

It started with a livestream with me and 300+ people where I taught everything I knew about the art of cold email

for the next 7 days ppl wrote cold email drafts in our whatsapp community and I gave them feedback

Here are the winners:

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See the Judging process with Farza and Jay