Gmail

8 statements across 7 episodes · 2 bullish · 3 bearish · 7 people on the record · first statement Sep 21, 2023 by Itamar Gilad · said 78 times in 42 episodes since 2022 · across every show →

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Everything said about Gmail, oldest first

Sep 21, 2023
Assertion Supported
Gilad: Gmail's tabbed inbox was first tested via an HTML facade
“We used a lot of those in the tabbed inbox, by the way, one of the first early versions was actually, we showed the tabbed inbox working. To people, but it wasn't really Gmail. It was just a facade of HTML and behind the scenes. And according to the permission…”
Itamar Gilad Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 52:25 Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
Sep 21, 2023 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Gilad: 85% to 88% of users love Gmail's tabbed inbox
“Like splitting promotions and social to the side sounds like the stupidest idea, but there's about 85% of the population, 85 to 88% that absolutely love it. And today Gmail has about 1.8 billion active users, according to Gmail. Most of these users are using t…”
Itamar Gilad Sep 21, 2023 ▶ 11:56 Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
May 26, 2024 negative
Opinion
Kaba: YouTube delivers a significantly worse experience for new accounts
“If you were to go and create a new Gmail account and look at YouTube today, I guarantee you it's a completely different and significantly worse experience, right?”
Bangaly Kaba May 26, 2024 ▶ 56:50 Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
Jan 9, 2025 negative
Insight
Houston: UI features like swipes and snoozes are not durable advantages
“Look, you're gonna wake up tomorrow and Gmail and Apple mail and everything is just gonna have these swipes and snoozes and it's just gonna be part of the UI is not a good, or it's not a durable source of advantage.”
Drew Houston Jan 9, 2025 ▶ 22:00 Behind the founder: Drew Houston (Dropbox)
Jan 18, 2025 negative
Insight
Naming mainstream apps during PM discovery interviews is an instant failure
“One of my favorite interview questions is to ask, tell me about a product that you recently discovered that you were super passionate about. You say, I worked for Google, but it's an instant failure. You say Google Maps or Gmail or Facebook. It just tells me y…”
Ebi Atawodi Jan 18, 2025 ▶ 12:34 Crafting A Compelling Product Vision (Ebi Atawodi) | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
Feb 9, 2025 positive
Assertion Supported
Rachitsky: Reader Survey Ranks ChatGPT Ahead of Gmail and Slack
“I did a survey of my readers and asked them what tools to use every day in your work and most use. And ChatGPT was Number one above Gmail, above Slack, above anything else. 90% of people said they use ChatGPT regularly.”
Lenny Rachitsky Feb 9, 2025 ▶ 5:09 OpenAI researcher on why soft skills are the future of work | Karina Nguyen
Mar 23, 2025 neutral
Insight
Vohra: Outlook users expect integrated calendar, unlike Gmail users
“Outlook users expect their email app to also be a fully featured calendar app. Whereas Gmail users are happy with those two things being entirely different.”
Rahul Vohra Mar 23, 2025 ▶ 1:16:25 Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)
May 22, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
An iOS 4 bug triggered a 1,000x server load spike for Gmail
“And it was a bug in iOS four. This is a long time ago, which caused every single user to pull the entire Gmail inbox, resync the whole inbox. So the bug on the Apple side is going to take two, three weeks to fix. And it was causing like a thousand X load to ou…”
Mayur Kamat May 22, 2025 ▶ 15:16 Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
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