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EP 40 - How Paul Buchheit Revolutionized Email with Gmail

The Aarthi and Sriram Show

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The Origins of Gmail

In the 90s, there was kind of like this portal thing with Yahoo and Exite and Infosyq. And they all just offered the exact same product more or less. I wanted to make something that was actually better than a desktop application, but that lived on the web. So Gmail version zero started with a previous project that I had was just finishing up on which was the original Google Groups.

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