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Cold Outreach - Tom McCarthy

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Friends let friends befriend strangers on the internet.

October 2026: Making friends through cold emails. I think the biggest benefit of cold emails is making friends. Not sales, investment or any immediate material benefit, but the ability to initiate and develop long-term, fruitful relationships with people all over the world. If you do this a lot, you will inevitably find yourself benefitting materially from it: a job, investment, internship, sales, referrals. But you should almost always start with the mentality that cold emails are for unexpected and far-reaching benefits rather than something more short-term. Great opportunities most often…

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