This founder opens up finally

Martin Martinez, Alfred, International Founders, Networking, SaaS (software as a service)

Joining me is Martin Martinez. I know him as the founder of Alfred, which lets you market to people on LinkedIn.

If I wanted to expand my network to know every founder in San Francisco, Alfred would allow me to find all those founders, add them on LinkedIn and then send them messages. And then if they do add me on LinkedIn, I could follow up with them both in InMail, which is LinkedIn’s email system or with regular email.

And Martin said, “I’m going to let people decide how they’re going to communicate with people on LinkedIn.” So it got him into a little bit of trouble with LinkedIn, but he found a way out of it.

I want to find out about all that in this interview.

Martin Martinez

Alfred

Martin Martinez is the founder of Alfred, which automates daily tasks on LinkedIn.

Andrew: Freedom fighters. My name is Andrew Warner and, um, I talk to entrepreneurs for a very long time. Before they say yes to interviews. Joining me is an entrepreneur who I, I guess we had a conversation a while back, and then I get an email from him out of the blue about a month ago where he says, Andrew, I’m finally ready to tell my story.

And I thought, okay, great. I wonder why he was hesitating. Then he follows up with me and he tells me what happened. I go whole, is he really going to say all this online? And he’s smiling. And apparently he is. Joining me is Martin Martinez. I know him as the founder of Alfred. And what Alfred does is. It basically lets you market to people on LinkedIn.

It both lets you say, if you have like I do, I have thousands of people who are connected to me on LinkedIn, I could pull in their email addresses, um, and then bucket them. And if I want to just CEO’s who are here in San Francisco? How for, it allows me...

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