Job seeker cold-emailed CEOs with guessed email patterns, 60% hit rate
jackedAJ · x · 2026-11-15
A practical cold-email trick: startup email addresses almost always follow a ranked pattern (firstname@, firstinitial@, firstinitiallastinitial@, firstname.lastname@, firstinitial.lastname@), yet most people pick full-name formats for their own addresses — so the earlier patterns are nearly always available and valid. The poster used the top two patterns to cold-email CEOs and CTOs while job hunting and got through 60% of the time.
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