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Paul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail

The Social Radars

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Google Launched With a Gmail Invite

Gmail didn't even exist when we launched it, you know, to sort of like make the situation more difficult. My brother had just died. So there was a little bit of a shit show back on the team. The real reason for the for the Gmail invite thing was simply that the entire system would have collapsed. Otherwise, we just didn't have capacity.

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