In the long run with AI - email outbound is dead as the marginal cost of creating personalised content decreases to the cost of LLM tokens.

The future is back to cold calling with a real-life human on the phone - until voice-to-voice LLMs commoditise that as well.

Then salespeople and founders with strong networks will thrive. You'll see a comeback to F2F meetings and dinners as people crave real connections.