I'm glad you have your heart in the right place. However, as one of the PMs in charge of one of the most important messaging applications on the planet, you ca

I'm glad you have your heart in the right place. However, as one of the PMs in charge of one of the most important messaging applications on the planet, you cannot claim the following without stating your reasons: > Gmail does not, inherently, have any network effects Yes, compared to facebook, and within the context of messaging apps, gmail's network effect is weaker. But the fact that the very existence of the gmail monolith can kill off small mail servers (not implicitly, but by failure to deliver messages), is a real problem. I understand it's a difficult problem. It's not a gmail scale problem, but the effects, times the number of small mail servers is important, because those small mail servers will be what is left if any of the big players in this ecosystem collapse.