Google Groups

product on 8 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes · said 15 times in 13 episodes since 2016

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Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not yet assessed · timeframe Feb 2022
Seibel: First version of Gmail was built inside Google Groups UI
“The first version of Gmail, he basically figured out how to put his email into this Google Groups UI.”
Michael Seibel Feb 16, 2022 ▶ 2:08 Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
Y COMBINATOR Assertion Not checkable as stated
Buchheit wrote the first version of Gmail in a single day
“So the very first version of Gmail I wrote in a day and it wasn't very good but I took, I had previously been working on Google Groups, which was like a Usenet search at the time, now it's something different, but I took the code that I've been working on for …”
Paul Buchheit Oct 24, 2018 ▶ 14:08 The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
20VC Assertion Supported
Buchheit: The initial prototype of Gmail was built in a single day
“So the most extreme case of this might be that the very first version of Gmail, arguably, I wrote in a single day. And what I did was I had previously been working on Google Groups, which at the time was a Usenet search product. And I just took the code. So I …”
Paul Buchheit Nov 1, 2017 ▶ 19:28 20VC: Y Combinator's Paul Buchheit on Creating Gmail Version 1.0 & Leadership Lessons from Working With Zuckerberg and Larry Paige

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