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Gmail seemed kind of crazy at the time.

• mdorazio 6y ago
  The only crazy part when it launched was the growing storage space aspect, which only seemed crazy because all the other mail providers were so ridiculously stingy. Email as a fantastic data gathering and ad platform made sense from day one.
• nikitaga 6y ago
  I don't think they risked anything significant to build gmail. Nor was there any significant risk of gmail not succeeding due to hard technical problems. Compared to X projects like autonomous cars or power kites the original gmail was nothing crazy at all. Was it good software? Yes. Crazy? Hell no.