I think the overall trend on the internet is sort of in our favor, so we kind of have to limit our sales. I think it’s been a combination of factors.
let’s say the past 18 months, especially. But from what we do see, yes, we do see quite strong growth, especially over the past …. How has that correlated with new sign-ups?Īndy Yen: We’re not very big on tracking or collecting data, so we don’t have a huge amount of data. Inverse: Just from looking at something like Google Trends, there seems to be growing interest in ProtonMail. Yen, who founded ProtonMail with two colleagues at the European Organization for Nuclear Research - hence, the name ProtonMail - spoke with Inverse about ProtonMail’s growth and its plans for the future in a recent interview. Since ProtonMail went into public beta in May 2016 (the result of that IndieGogo campaign), it’s seen steady adoption. But for anyone who doesn’t want Google crawlers scanning their email text in order to serve up relevant ads, ProtonMail might prove to be a hospitable home. Reporters across the political spectrum and of varying disciplines, at publications from The New York Times to The Atlantic to the Daily Caller to CBS currently have accounts displayed their biographies.Ĭompared to the Jupiter that is Gmail and its more than 1.2 billion accounts, ProtonMail is like a newly discovered, distant exoplanet. A number of high-profile journalists have begun adopting the encrypted email, too. Yen’s vision is getting larger with every new signup to the service, which he says had grown to more than 5 million accounts as of September 2018, up from 2 million accounts in January 2017.
“Come to ProtonMail, and have all the features, plus the security and the privacy that Google doesn’t provide you. “We want you to be able to completely de-Google-fy your life,” Yen says. But what about encrypted docs, spreadsheets, and slideshow presentations? That’s coming, too, Yen says. That encryption also protects them from being read by third-parties if you send an email from your ProtonMail account to another ProtonMail user.
because it encrypts your message and can’t scrape them for data. ProtonMail is primarily different from your free email - Gmail, Yahoo!, etc. There’s growing interest in ProtonMail, the encrypted email service that started with a splashy Indiegogo campaign in 2014, but co-founder and CEO Andy Yen tells Inverse that email is only the beginning for Geneva, Switzerland-based operation.
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