Yahoo Mail
product on 4 shows · 4 statements across 3 episodes · said 15 times in 7 episodes since 2018
Acquired 6 
the Y Combinator Startup Podcast 6 
Founder's Journal 2 
Innovators & Investors 1
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Gmail Launched When Hotmail Offered Just Two Megabytes of Storage
“At the time, Hotmail, which as you said, Microsoft owns,
Had two megabytes of free storage, and Yahoo Mail had four megabytes.”
Gmail launched with 1GB of storage when rivals offered 2MB
“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.”
Graham: YC Partners Built Both Yahoo Mail and Gmail
“Y Combinator has the people who wrote Yahoo Mail and Gmail.”
Ralston: Buchheit Built Gmail Solo While RocketMail Had a Team
“Paul Buchheit, who actually has more of a claim on actually writing Gmail than I do have a claim on writing Yahoo Mail. I wrote some important parts of Yahoo Mail, but Paul was kind of by himself doing Gmail almost, and we had, we were a little more intentiona…”