E1026: Cocoon Co-Founders Sachin Monga & Alex Cornell are building an intimate app to connect close circles, share insights on key standout features, raising money as a messaging app, breeding trust via strong domain names, ideal customers & more

0:57 Jason intros Alex & Sachin

4:46 When and why did they start Cocoon?

6:40 Why did Facebook keep changing their developer tools platform?

9:22 What is the vision for Cocoon and who is it made for?

14:58 How did they get the cocoon.com domain name and why do strong domain names breed trust?

16:57 What are they doing with customer data and how will they monetize?

20:20 Cocoon demo and Alex takes us through some key features

29:45 How difficult was raising money going up against Facebook, iMessage, etc.?

33:04 Who is their ideal customer?

38:35 Building a company in San Francisco vs. outside of it

41:57 Jason tries to invest in Cocoon live on air

47:45 Growing Cocoon in the crowded app store

51:51 Why do Cocoon founders use Notion?

54:37 Jason calls Ben Horowitz