Cold Email Hackathon
The World's First Cold Email Hackathon
Here's a weird little secret about the world:
Every wildly successful person you admire - bn $ founders, CEOs, celebrities, investors - can point to ONE cold email that changed their life.
There are people walking around right now whose entire careers exist because they had the agency to send a cold email without permission
But 99% of people get it wrong. They send the same template to 200 people. So this event is to teach the actual art behind writing an irresistible cold email. And putting it to practice!
You should participate if you're a,
Student/masters grad cold emailing for jobs
Founder cold emailing investors to raise money
Freelancer cold emailing dream clients
Podcaster cold emailing to land your dream guests
Someone cold emailing to get in touch with their favorite celebrities
or just looking to reach anyone on the internet
Here's how it works:
The event will run for 8 days.
You will have 8 days to cold email anyone - Fortune 500 founders, celebrities, investors, world famous entrepreneurs, billion dollar CEOs etc.
Criteria for winning:
Best cold email overall
Most valuable reply
Best subject line to get a reply
Special shout outs
Agenda:
Before the Hackathon on 1st Dec:
I'll host a live cold email workshop where I'll share everything I've learned over the last 2 years studying the Art of Cold email
This includes some special guests (will be revealed soon)
Participants will get a discount off The 8 Day Cold Email Challenge
Participants will get access to a community to share their cold email drafts and get feedback
Prizes:
The best cold emails will be featured in The Cold Email Hall of Fame. And will be sent a customized trophy (in person)
The top 3 will get a cash prize of $300 sponsored by 3FVC and a fast-track to their founder grant applications
The cash prize will be split accordingly:
1st Place: 50%
2nd Place: 30%
3rd Place: 20%
Judges
Jay Yang - just featured in Forbes for building a career entirely off cold emails. Also the author of You Can Just Do Things (an Amazon best-seller)
Farza Majeed - previously founded Buildspace and grew the community to over 125,000 students helping them turn side-projects into real startups. Cold email helped him a lot along the way and he's looked up to in the space for writing very authentically
The Cold Email Hall of Fame
This is a museum of the world's best cold emails.
It includes cold emails sent to billion dollar CEOs like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Mark Cuban as well as world famous researchers, celebs, etc.
The best ones will be featured here :)
Join us in making history - for the world's first cold email hackathon