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> When they sat down with me they said, “we want you to build an email something.” As I understand Paul began work on Gmail in 2001 at the time Yahoo Mail and
by nodesocket 8y ago
> When they sat down with me they said, “we want you to build an email something.”
As I understand Paul began work on Gmail in 2001 at the time Yahoo Mail and Hotmail were market leaders. Interesting Google execs knew they could do better, even though Gmail didn't officially launch until over 3 years later.
- pm90 8y agoWell part of the story seems to be that they weren't Google "Execs", it was Larry removing (firing?) all of management and having engineers decide what other engineers to work on.
- YokoZar 8y agoit's been widely reported that gmail was a 20% project to start with. That seems inconsistent with this version of events.
- tinkerteller 8y agoIf I remember correctly there were lot many more people involved pouring various ideas that became final product although Buchheit had a lion’s share and founded the project.