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Gmail started as an internal 20% project too, I think. The key elements of GCP were also developed in-house. But yeah, a lot of their good stuff started as an a
by jkaplowitz 6y ago
Gmail started as an internal 20% project too, I think. The key elements of GCP were also developed in-house. But yeah, a lot of their good stuff started as an acquisition.
(Disclosure: I was a Googler for a few years, joining through an adtech-related acquisition, and a Google intern one summer several years before that. But I haven't worked for Google in over five years.)
- nix23 6y agoBut Gmail was just Email with a counting Storage timer (which was really exiting at times where 30MB was a normal Free-mail quota). And GCP...well nothing new after Heroku and Amazon. It just feels that google is always two steps behind from new inventions, then they try to half heartily implement it, or buy another corporation. Google should sell itself for free to Elon (Joke...but also not really)