"It was the dirtiest hack. It was just another version of things that don't scale," he says. "I learned that people really think email is important, and it's got to always work." He didn't get Google to release it because they were afraid it would take up too much hardware.
Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel on software hacks that don't scale. Companies discussed include Google, Facebook, Twitch, and imeem. Watch the first video on doing things that don't scale here: https://youtu.be/4RMjQal_c4U
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