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Congrats to the team but... How can you say: "[Thanks to] Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh [who] endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email
by dschobel 17y ago
Congrats to the team but...
How can you say: "[Thanks to] Paul Buchheit and Sanjeev Singh [who] endured my slide deck on our multi-step plan for global email domination, and pointed out that instead I should build something small, simple, and useful. It worked."
It worked so well that you kill the product? Or does "it worked" refer to the pay day + google job?
- scott_s 17y agoI assume the plan is to integrate his product into mobile Gmail. His product will die, but all of those ideas will live on.
- dschobel 17y agoThere's no mention of any future for the ideas, even vague NDA-friendly ones. That's the issue.
- rjurney 17y agoWhy would Google make this acquisition if there was no value in the product, if they intended to do nothing similar, if they could make no use of the work done to date, of the outcome of the experiment, of the experience of the team? They wouldn't. Google just acquired the leading experts at monetizing search on the iPhone. Can't you see the value in that for Google from many angles? Everything Google does has to fit Google's scale - and that is at odds with architecting a product at a startup. So you rewrite it, you get the new DNA incorporated into existing product lines, and you move forward.
- pg 17y agoreMail does work. Jessica uses it all the time.