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Vanguard: The communist capitalist who saved investors a trillion dollars (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:46:04 Ben Gilbert This is like Vanguard is Microsoft and Fidelity is Google, and they could launch Gmail and say that thing, that's your primary business.
- ▶ 2:46:51 David Rosenthal There's another aspect to this too, though, which, uh, your Gmail versus Outlook mail analogy is holds even more.
Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 18:30 David Rosenthal This is the era of all the great, great products coming out of Google that we've talked about, you know, Maps and Gmail and Docs and all the wonderful things that Chrome and Android are going to come later.
- ▶ 19:05 David Rosenthal And so one of those products was Google Translate, you know, not the same level of user base or perhaps impact on the world as Gmail or Maps or whatnot, but still a magical, magical product.
- ▶ 1:21:46 David Rosenthal Brain and neural nets are getting integrated into search, into ads, into Gmail, into everything.
- ▶ 1:43:31 Ben Gilbert Gmail starts offering typing suggestions.
- ▶ 2:45:58 Ben Gilbert It's just like Gmail.
- ▶ 2:45:59 Ben Gilbert Gmail was technology.
- ▶ 3:40:46 David Rosenthal Everything that we talked about in part two, the alphabet episode, all of the other products within Google, Gmail, Maps, Docs, Chrome, Android,
Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:11 Ben Gilbert They launched a breakthrough email service in your browser with Gmail.
- ▶ 5:47 David Rosenthal Gmail, Maps, the forthcoming Google Docs.
- ▶ 6:50 David Rosenthal So the first, and probably the most important here, because it sets the stage for everything else, the first major non-search product was on April first, April Fool's Day, 2004, Gmail.
- ▶ 8:14 David Rosenthal He's interviewing Bill Gates at the Newsweek headquarters office in New York shortly after Gmail comes out, and then they started talking about Gmail, and Bill can't believe it.
- ▶ 8:24 David Rosenthal He's like offended by Gmail because he thinks that giving people all this storage is just wasteful.
- ▶ 8:39 David Rosenthal I was thinking about it until Gmail, the paradigm for email, people treated it like regular physical mail.
- ▶ 8:55 David Rosenthal So Gmail, this is radical.
- ▶ 9:03 David Rosenthal I mean, if you sat and you thought about it in, say, 2001 or so, when Gmail starts getting worked on within Google, and you thought about the combination of the growth of the internet, which obviously Google has a front row seat to, and…
- ▶ 9:49 Ben Gilbert Paul famously the inventor of Gmail.
- ▶ 13:09 Ben Gilbert That's the first version of Gmail.
- ▶ 15:39 Ben Gilbert You trying to tell me that Gmail is the first Ajax application?
- ▶ 17:18 David Rosenthal So supposedly Larry and Sergey become the first beta users of Gmail.
- ▶ 17:22 David Rosenthal They are the seed Gmail users, and they start using it exclusively as their mail service within Google.
- ▶ 17:30 David Rosenthal And then by the time it launches publicly, all of Google is on Gmail and using it addicted to it.
- ▶ 18:06 David Rosenthal And that is a huge part of the motivation underlying Gmail and
- ▶ 20:53 David Rosenthal So, why Google's so jazzed about Gmail, they need to build up leverage with consumers, with users, that they're gonna demand rich web applications, so that if Microsoft ever tries to disadvantage Google or disadvantage web apps and things…
- ▶ 21:16 David Rosenthal And so this is what Gmail is.
- ▶ 21:18 David Rosenthal So Gmail developments trucking along through 2001, 2002, 2003.
- ▶ 21:25 David Rosenthal It took three years to develop Gmail.
- ▶ 22:25 David Rosenthal Even if you assume, and I think this is probably directionally correct, that because of Google's commodity infrastructure advantage, they could launch Gmail at like one-tenth of the cost that anybody else could.
- ▶ 23:21 Ben Gilbert Anyone got any Gmail invites?
- ▶ 23:31 David Rosenthal When they launch it on April first, 2004, they send out 1000 seed invites to Gmail.
- ▶ 25:08 David Rosenthal Uh, I wish I could only refresh Gmail once or twice a day.
- ▶ 27:05 Ben Gilbert How much credit for AdSense does Gmail get in discovering this?
- ▶ 27:09 Ben Gilbert But it is safe to say that the idea of display ads that are content matched against your Gmail did contribute to the idea for the first version of AdSense, which are essentially the same thing, content matched ads just on a publisher…
- ▶ 27:34 David Rosenthal It is truly a revolutionary product, and Gmail grows over the next 20 years from that a thousand initial public beta user seed base to over two billion today, and it's still by far the best email service.
- ▶ 27:53 David Rosenthal Front end for your email, for your Gmail, like superhuman or whatnot today.
- ▶ 27:57 David Rosenthal You still want Gmail on the back end, at least as a consumer.
- ▶ 28:01 David Rosenthal So once Gmail starts to take off, Larry and Sergey and Eric see this and they're like, wow, we should do this a lot.
- ▶ 28:42 David Rosenthal And beyond that, with some of these products, like Gmail, we can monetize the products themselves.
- ▶ 29:43 David Rosenthal Like they'll do with maps, like they'll do with docs, like they'll do with YouTube that we're about to talk about.
- ▶ 32:12 Ben Gilbert So, Gmail.
- ▶ 32:26 David Rosenthal So the next big web apps following Gmail were maps, docs, and spreadsheets.
- ▶ 32:55 David Rosenthal It starts in 2003, so even before the Gmail launch, when a young associate product manager APM at Google named Brett Taylor, that Brett Taylor.
- ▶ 35:52 David Rosenthal And they basically independently discover and implement a lot of the JavaScript and Ajax features that Google was working on internally for Gmail.
- ▶ 36:01 David Rosenthal Gmail still hadn't launched yet.
- ▶ 38:25 David Rosenthal Gmail and JavaScript and Ajax had inspired developers out there, for sure, to make richer web apps, and people were doing that.
- ▶ 44:05 Ben Gilbert Google said, based on the success we're seeing with Gmail, I bet we could do actual spreadsheets in the browser with real-time collaboration.
- ▶ 44:57 David Rosenthal As a web app inspired by Gmail and everything that was going on at Google.
- ▶ 54:31 David Rosenthal So, as we were researching Google's expansion here from Just Search into being a real platform company here in the 2000 with Gmail, Chrome, Android, Workspace, everything we're gonna get to later in the episode, the complexity just…
- ▶ 57:06 David Rosenthal Gmail hasn't even launched yet.
- ▶ 1:07:40 David Rosenthal I mean, it's almost like Gmail.
- ▶ 1:21:55 Ben Gilbert You can kind of hear it through our episode of things like Gmail are good because then you're logged into Google, but there's not a giant lift.
- ▶ 1:46:58 Ben Gilbert Okay, the one thing I will say here, David, is unlike all those other Google products, Maps, Gmail, YouTube, organizing the world's information, this is not organizing the world's information and making it universally accessible.
- ▶ 2:24:15 Ben Gilbert Gmail was that way.
- ▶ 3:05:29 Ben Gilbert And if you do that, then you get all the great Google services, all the apps, you know, you get the native Gmail and the native maps and all this great stuff we've written.
- ▶ 3:12:15 Ben Gilbert Now, seven billion, not nothing, but still a far cry from Google's core business of ads from search, Gmail, and Maps.
- ▶ 3:15:47 David Rosenthal So there was a Turkish engineer who worked for Google named Orkut Bukokhtin, and his passion was social networking, and Friendster was a thing at the time, and so January, 2004, before Gmail, before the Google IPO, before Facebook launches…
- ▶ 3:20:17 Ben Gilbert Gmail is massive, and it really is the only one in 2009, 10 at the company that owns identity, since it's the only Google property that you actually have to log into.
- ▶ 3:37:56 Ben Gilbert Gmail.
- ▶ 3:39:26 David Rosenthal Just like the last episode with Gmail at the end, I've got one little coda, one little teaser for next time.
- ▶ 3:47:02 David Rosenthal How about Gmail?
- ▶ 3:47:03 David Rosenthal Oh, I've got my last, uh, 20 years of email history in Gmail all stored for free.
- ▶ 3:47:51 David Rosenthal But for users of Gmail.
- ▶ 3:55:45 David Rosenthal And then my quintessence is, it is wild that this one company has eight products with over a billion users and started this era with just one search that didn't even have a billion users yet, but search, Android, Chrome, YouTube, Gmail,…
- ▶ 3:57:36 Ben Gilbert Gmail and Google Drive sort of advantage each other, so I think you can sort of subtract one of those out.
- ▶ 3:59:28 Ben Gilbert Gmail.
- ▶ 4:09:46 Ben Gilbert And also Paul Buchheit, creator of Gmail, Bill Koren, Jonathan Rochelle, Bradley Horowitz, John Henke, Ben Idelson, Isar Lipkowitz, and Ben Liebald.
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- ▶ 27:54 David Rosenthal They have pre-built integrations with Gmail and Google Docs, and also services like Jira, Asana, Linear, Square, PayPal, as well as custom integrations for any internal tool that you have.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 1:14:01 David Rosenthal Claude can analyze hundreds of pages of documents simultaneously, and now with its connection to Google Workspace, it can pull insights from files in Google Drive, check Gmail, and search the latest information, all while maintaining…
- ▶ 3:13:46 Ben Gilbert the next best is the stat that I read on Gmail.
- ▶ 3:14:37 Ben Gilbert Okay, David, we're gonna tell the whole Gmail story as part of chapter two.
- ▶ 3:14:47 Ben Gilbert So, the engineer who started Gmail, Paul Buchheit, now, of course, a partner at Y Combinator, and actually with Brett Taylor, started FriendFeed.
- ▶ 3:15:08 Ben Gilbert So, he's working on Gmail.
- ▶ 3:15:39 Ben Gilbert That's like the only functionality of what would become Gmail.
- ▶ 3:15:43 Ben Gilbert So the search bar is actually the first feature of Gmail, and everything else came later.
- ▶ 3:16:30 Ben Gilbert Was actually part of the prototyping process of Gmail.
- ▶ 3:16:37 David Rosenthal And I love how you saved this to the end because you knew we were going to do the little, uh, teaser on Gmail.
- ▶ 3:16:43 Ben Gilbert You said, oh, I think we should do a little Gmail foreshadow in the.
TSMC · Acquired
- ▶ 2:09:35 Ben Gilbert AcquiredFM at gmail.com.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:13:38 Ben Gilbert Invented Gmail.
- ▶ 3:13:39 David Rosenthal Created Gmail within Google.
- ▶ 3:32:29 David Rosenthal And they had Gmail.
- ▶ 3:32:30 Ben Gilbert And they had Gmail.
- ▶ 6:05:04 Ben Gilbert Originally, Facebook Messages was going to be a Gmail killer.
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:18:28 Ben Gilbert And so, Outlook, Exchange, geez, Gmail.
Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023) (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 35:49 David Rosenthal So this is when Google comes out with Smart Compose in Gmail, and they do that thing where they have an AI bot that'll call local businesses for you.
Sessions: David Senra (Founders Podcast) · Acquired
- ▶ 2:58:21 David Senra They're like, oh, yeah, when I was, like, ninth grade, I, like, did this, like, Gmail plug-in, or, like.
ACQ Sessions: Jason Calacanis · Acquired
- ▶ 2:21:58 Ben Gilbert AcquiredFM at gmail.com or tweet at us, at AcquiredFM.
Amazon Web Services · Acquired
- ▶ 1:42:11 Ben Gilbert Google Docs and Gmail and everything.
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- ▶ 2:57:54 Ben Gilbert Where Google Images came out of, and like, Gmail, and those sort of things.
American Dynamism (with Katherine Boyle) · Acquired
- ▶ 31:32 Ben Gilbert When a Washington Post journalist emails me, like, that's much more interesting than a cold email from someone with a Gmail address in most scenarios.
The Browser (with Brendan Eich, Chief Architect of Netscape + Mozilla and CEO of Brave) · Acquired
- ▶ 40:04 Brendan Eich We're going to just do it whenever you sign in to Gmail or YouTube in a tab.
- ▶ 1:17:57 Brendan Eich And so in Brave, if you use webmail like Gmail, we block those trackers at the endpoint where the secure session, the TLS session terminates.
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- ▶ 2:35:44 Ben Gilbert Email us at acquiredfm, uh, or acquiredfm at gmail.com or, uh, tweet at us at acquiredfm.