Email... Dead? Wordpress CEO runs a billion-dollar company with no offices or email

I found this interesting article:

This CEO runs a billion-dollar company with no offices or email

What do you think about this statement AFTER reading?
"I think email is definitely on its way out, between things like P2 and Slack, which is a work place chat tool. Email just has so many things wrong with it. I've never heard anyone who've said they love email, they want more of it — have you?

Imagine if, in your company, instead of email, everyone could post and comment on a blog. Different groups or teams could have their own space on it, but fundamentally everything was tagged and traceable and transparent. That's kind of what P2 looks like. "

Do you think that mail is going to be replaced soon with a sort of "real-time" messaging?
Or do you think that people who avoid mail are in fact the people without a job or money, and of course not in target with internet or email marketing?

 

Nope, email is here to stay.

 

Email has become the primary mechanism of business communication, internally. What I mean is that communication between employees, vendors, and existing customers/prospects is most often email. Why is this? It is because of its convenience. An email thread typically holds the whole conversation in one scroll-able place which may occur over days or weeks or months. Further, if someone is busy or out for a period of time, the email sits there in their inbox waiting for a reply. But, just as important, and unlike a call or chat session, the replier can reflect on the previous message and take time to compose the best reply. People understand if an email is not immediately returned and this gives the replier some much needed thinking time. No other mechanism really provides all of these benefits.

Reports of email's demise are seriously premature.

 

If I was CEO of a Blog platform I would promote my blog functions by controversial comments. Email is still strong and will be for many years to come, one important reason is as @jrbiz said, the complete conversation as well as legal bindings to it. Chat functions are still being treated as verbal communication, it is not efficient in many cases. There might come a day that emails are gone but no time soon, world ain't ready for that, think of the opportunity cost of that change.

 

Its true that most of people dont like to write or sent formal emails but it can never be replaced by real-time chat or any other private blog spcae coz it also the medium of secret holding and easy findings.

 

Email to be stay in the at least 20 year down the road.
As its widely use for formal business communication.

 

People will still be using e-mail for at least five years after the last fax is sent.

 

The fact is: email are used by business people.

I mean people who NEED to use email.

Maybe the student with the money of the family, or the employee can not rely on the mail, but the business man, which is definately the target of most of us marketers, still use it.

The question is how it will evolve? Would it turn more in an app integrated in the browser such as push notification?

 

Hi, we already have push notifications for decades with MS Outlook. My Outlook client downloads emails immediately and notifies me when they arrive. I would not waste my time with having to check webmail. Something else that is a standard is using Calendar Invites in Outlook. My sales and marketing teams use them all of the time, not only internally among staff, but with customers and prospects. Do not underestimate how important email and calendar invites are and how much businesspeople rely on MS Outlook for both of these. Yes, Google has email and calendar invites, but generally, Outlook rules the business world.

 

Gmail is bigger than outlook. Less people use outlook imho.

 

I could see teams not using email to communicate. In fact other forms like shared notes in Evernote, private blogs etc work well. But for others? Email is still the best form of communication. Especially to a large audience.

 

So how exactly does he communicate his financial statements between him and his account or read other people's resumes without any privacy. This is just wrong and untrue.
Is wordpress's earnings somewhere public too, including the employee's social security numbers?

Actually aside from the private vs public post issue, how is he going to communicate with ourside clients, advertising networks without email