On
November 30th, 2005 at around 5:35PM PST, YouSendIt registered its
first user. It has been a long road since then but just this morning -- a
little ahead of schedule -- we registered our 10,000,000th user.
I
want to thank everyone, specifically the loyal YouSendIt user community, who
has helped to get us here. I can’t begin to describe all the heroics
performed by the YouSendIt team and encouragement from the YouSendIt fan-club
that made this milestone possible. You have all out-done yourselves!
I specifically want
to congratulate, Barry Smith, MD and Director of The Rogosin Institute,
who is our 10 millionth user. The Rogosin Institute was established in
NewYork City in 1983 as an independent, not-for-profit institution for
research, treatment, and education in kidney disease, diabetes, hypertension,
cancer and lipid (cholesterol) control. Its primary mission is to advance
the understanding of these diseases and to bring the resulting research to
patients and clinics as quickly as possible. It employs over 350 doctors,
nurses, researchers and administrative employees.
YouSendIt provides
the Institute with a an efficient way to get critical research out to the field
as quickly as possible. They send data from clinical trials to potential new
therapies, research data, protocols, and digital imaging files to researchers,
medical panels and government agencies for review. All of this data has
to be sent back and forth quickly, reliably, and, very importantly, securely.
In addition to this
milestone, YouSendIt has experienced its two best quarters in the history of
the company this year. We now have more than 100,000 paid subscribers and
have completed over 10,000 new pay-per-use transactions per month (yes, you
can just pay for just one file send at a time!). After just two years in
the market, YouSendIt’s corporate solution has attracted over
1,500 companies. To read more, click here for our press release.
Take
some time to reflect on the journey -- 10,000,000 of anything is a lot!
Building the world’s most populous city of individuals and businesses
happily engaging in conversations that can’t happen anywhere else, is no small
feat.
I
am looking forward to the many more in the years to come!
Ranjith
Kumaran, Founder
& CTO
