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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 9:40 Ben Gilbert So, I know you're about to bring up the name Paul Buchheit.
- ▶ 9:45 Ben Gilbert So Paul was kind enough to speak with me before recording this episode.
- ▶ 9:49 Ben Gilbert Paul famously the inventor of Gmail.
- ▶ 9:52 Ben Gilbert In 1996, Paul was a student at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, which, you may also know this, David, famously was one of the Ohio Strong.
- ▶ 10:08 David Rosenthal Oh, ok, I do about the Paul fascination with webmail starting in college, but I didn't realize that Case Western had broadband.
- ▶ 11:30 Ben Gilbert And so in Paul's meeting, they knew about his previous interest in email and web-based mail, and they sort of float this amorphous idea to him, and that's where it comes from.
- ▶ 11:44 Ben Gilbert Okay, so here's some other stuff that Paul said.
- ▶ 12:09 David Rosenthal Do you know how Paul found out about Google in 1999?
- ▶ 12:24 David Rosenthal So, 2001, Paul gets to work with encouragement from Larry and Win.
- ▶ 12:44 David Rosenthal Yeah, and Paul's working on that.
- ▶ 12:53 Ben Gilbert So Paul just applies that to his own personal inbox.
- ▶ 14:57 David Rosenthal And so Paul's like, maybe I can use JavaScript to make this better.
- ▶ 15:20 David Rosenthal And Paul's like, oh my god.
- ▶ 16:35 David Rosenthal So, I mean, when Paul discovers this, this is almost like Google search all over again when people realize what you can do to create
- ▶ 17:12 David Rosenthal So Paul builds the prototype.
- ▶ 25:49 Ben Gilbert So even in the prototyping phase, Paul logs into the database of ads, which is just funny that at that point in time, Google's got this big database of ads.
- ▶ 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.
Google Part I: Origins of Search. How the Best Business in Human History Happened (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 3:14:58 Ben Gilbert Paul Buchheit is awesome, and recently launched a new venture fund, and actually the original coiner of the term, don't be evil, at Google.
- ▶ 3:16:49 Ben Gilbert So thank you to, uh, Paul Buchheit for sharing the story with us.
- ▶ 3:19:05 Ben Gilbert Paul Buchheit had a great quote when I was talking with him.
- ▶ 3:38:39 Ben Gilbert And to Paul Bukite, to Bill Gross, to Wesley Chan, and to Isar Lipkiewicz.
Meta (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:12:11 David Rosenthal Brett Taylor and Paul Buchite invented the like button.
- ▶ 3:13:35 David Rosenthal Well, and Paul Buchite, the other FriendFeed founder.
- ▶ 3:13:41 Ben Gilbert So he ended up at Facebook for a while then after, I forgot about Paul, too.
- ▶ 3:13:46 David Rosenthal Yeah, he must not have stayed very long, if at all.
- ▶ 3:13:48 David Rosenthal Because he went to YC, I think, after that.