Skiff
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Skiff was a privacy-focused productivity platform founded in 2020 by Andrew Milich and Jason Ginsberg. It offered end-to-end encrypted Mail, Pages (docs), Calendar and Drive, aiming to let people communicate and collaborate without fear of interception or surveillance. It raised $14.2 million over two rounds from investors including Sequoia Capital, Alphabet chairman John Hennessy, former Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang and Eventbrite co-founders Julia and Kevin Hartz.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Acquisition and service closure
Notion acquired Skiff on 9 February 2024. Skiff gave users six months to migrate data and closed most services on 9 August 2024.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN
How the factors connect
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Skiff raised $14.2 million over two funding rounds, backed by Sequoia Capital and angels including John Hennessy and Jerry Yang.
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On February 9, 2024, Notion announced its acquisition of Skiff; terms were not disclosed.
- 03
All Skiff services (Mail, Pages, Calendar, Drive) were sunset on August 9, 2024, with mail forwarding continuing until February 9, 2025. No company-level loss figure with subject/period/basis was disclosed.