Email is not dead, it’s stronger than ever. I wonder why nobody talks about replacing email anymore. It was 2014 when ‘email-is-broken’ had become the popular talk in the Silicon Valley. People were constantly lashing out how they’re submerged in a deluge of emails and that they were ‘done’ with Email. It was around the same time that Slack became really popular for team communication. Its Founder Stewart Butterfield was relentlessly propagating that most companies would stop using Email altogether soon. Justin Rosenstein, founder of Asana, made the headlines too when he said “Email is a counter-productive tool.” Messaging apps like WhatsApp and Snapchat took off around the same time. There were dozens of products taking shots at replacing email.

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