>I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail. Friendly fyi

>I never worked at Google (or any other large corp for that matter), but this sounds like the exact opposite of an environment that spawned GMail. Friendly fyi... GMail was not a "20% project" which I mentioned previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052748 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39052748 Somebody (not me but maybe a Google employee) also revised the Wikipedia article a few hours after my comment: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Side_project_time&diff=1197275692&oldid=1188783909 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Side_project_time... Before LLMs and ChatGPT even existed ... a lot of us somehow hallucinated the idea that GMail came from Google's 20% Rule. E.g. from 2013-08-16 : https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6223466