Wesley Chan discusses the launch and massive consumer demand for Google's Gmail service, which launched as an invite-only beta with unprecedented storage capacity.
“Some of these invites, I remember, were selling for one or 2000 dollars off eBay for people to get on this Gmail service, because they wanted their two gigabytes of, like, email, right?”
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