Hotmail

“At the time, Hotmail, which as you said, Microsoft owns, Had two megabytes of free storage, and Yahoo Mail had four megabytes.”

“Web-based email from Google with one gigabyte of free storage for every single user. Now to put that in context, Yahoo and Hotmail, Yahoo Mail and Hotmail at the time had like two megabytes of free storage per user.”

“Like, we had to shut down Hotmail for forever because, like, we wouldn't let them see the data center servers, which weren't even in China, and all sorts of complexities.”

“We had caught about ten million subscribers when the total size of the internet population was about maybe 30 or forty million and everything was just growing.”

“We were very fortunate that our investors you know, gave us you know, More funding so that we could last another two years, you know, without having to worry about running out of capital, if you will.”

“For me, the mistakes were I, you know, I didn't find the right people to work with. That was my number one mistake. I'm too trusting. I think everybody has the same reason for being with you. That anybody else you know, that you have that is to improve the, yo…”

“I created the idea to put a message at the bottom of everybody's email at Hotmail.”

“The idea was to say, PS, I love you. Get your free email at Hotmail. And they thought I was out of my mind. And then they said, okay, okay. After we pounded the table for a long time, they finally said, okay, okay, we'll do it. But no PS, I love you. Just get …”

“I decided not to patent the idea or anything because I thought, you know, this is such a cool thing. I kind of want the whole world to do it because then communications will spread faster. New products will spread faster. Everything will be better.”