Gmail, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Gmail comes up
How we built Grok Bot in a month | Roman Ugarte (SpaceXAI)
- ▶ 46:14 Lenny Rachitsky And now with spend, you can give your team individual cards, set spending limits per person or per team, and have expense receipts automatically pulled in from Gmail or over text.
Why companies are becoming a series of loops | Anish Acharya (a16z)
- ▶ 41:57 Lenny Rachitsky From Gmail or over text.
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 38:22 Lenny Rachitsky From Gmail or over text.
How to show up in any room with a low heart rate: Silicon Valley’s missing etiquette playbook
- ▶ 1:00:53 Lenny Rachitsky Any, you would think nobody sees all these little things in the Gmail thread, but you do. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:21:45 Sam Lessin If you send me an email, lesson at gmail, I'm fine with, like, then I, you get, if I respond, you get automatically added. 2 times in the scene
We replaced our sales team with 20 AI agents—here’s what happened next | Jason Lemkin (SaaStr)
- ▶ 1:25:30 Jason Lemkin When you have a quiet moment, when you're having your mulled wine or your hot chocolate or whatever, go fire up your browser, do it in incognito, go to your app and do everything with a fresh Gmail address.
Why securing AI is harder than anyone expected and guardrails are failing | HackAPrompt CEO
- ▶ 1:02:12 Sander Schulhoff In addition to sending your email to whoever you're sending it to, send it to randomattacker at gmail.com.
Inside OpenAI: 2026 is the year of agents, AI’s biggest bottleneck, and why compute isn’t the issue
- ▶ 56:19 Alexander Embirikos Um, I have a few too many like Chachapiti Pro accounts that I've just like, in order to maximally correctly dog food, like signed up for on my Gmail and they charge me like 200 bucks a month.
The $1B Al company training ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini on the path to responsible AGI | Edwin Chen
- ▶ 35:13 Edwin Chen So for example, we might build a world where you have a startup with Gmail messages and Slack threads and Jira tickets and GitHub ERs and a whole code base.
What world-class GTM looks like in 2026 | Jeanne DeWitt Grosser (Vercel, Stripe, Google)
- ▶ 47:03 Jeanne DeWitt Grosser Um, so my first job out of college was working on Gmail in 2004. 4 times in the scene
Mental models for building products people love ft. Stewart Butterfield
- ▶ 11:40 Stewart Butterfield But, okay, so most people have the Gmail calendar app on their phone. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 40:33 Stewart Butterfield It's in the Gmail, um, app, the dragging of people, like you, when you reply all, um, to a message, you often want to change the, 3 times in the scene
He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- ▶ 24:18 Bret Taylor Paul started Gmail. 3 times in the scene
Rapidly test and validate any startup idea with the 2-day Foundation Sprint
- ▶ 6:12 Jake Knapp And just working on the Gmail team, was working on some, you know, projects that were just executing well, delivering shipping.
- ▶ 1:13:34 Jake Knapp If you go back to the early days of Gmail in the 2000, you know, if you had email, you were probably using Hotmail or Yahoo and it worked fine and you didn't have to think about it and this. 4 times in the scene
I’ve run 75+ businesses. Here’s why you’re probably chasing the wrong idea. | Andrew Wilkinson
- ▶ 43:21 Andrew Wilkinson You might say when I get an email in the Gmail API,
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 14:51 Mayur Kamat It was my first day at onboarding, and I was the product manager for Gmail, for mobile, for sync, and I was in my, my onboarding meeting when they pulled me out and said, hey, we have an issue. 2 times in the scene
The rise of Cursor: The $300M ARR AI tool that engineers can’t stop using | Michael Truell
- ▶ 35:09 Michael Truell You know, Gmail's autocomplete and kind of the different forms of autocomplete that show up when you're trying to get those text messages or emails or things like that.
Superhuman's secret to success | Rahul Vohra (CEO and founder)
- ▶ 1:16:11 Rahul Vohra In some ways it's very like selling to prosumers, except these users are not coming from Gmail where prosumers would not only come from, they're coming from Outlook. 3 times in the scene
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 7:20 Michael Margolis So I was embedded in the Gmail team early on in 2006.
The ultimate guide to founder-led sales | Jen Abel (co-founder of JJELLYFISH)
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 25:41 Raiza Martin That a bunch of people in our company are using this tool with our Gmails, with their Gmail account. 2 times in the scene
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 1:18:32 Lenny Rachitsky That I used with Dylan is if you do Gmail, if you give a gmail.com slash someone's name, it just comes up with what their email looks like.
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 1:40:39 Jeff Weinstein Instacart signed up for Stripe with a Gmail address and then COVID happened and they delivered critical 2 times in the scene
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 37:51 Lenny Rachitsky So this is an invented Gmail, just came up with this using AI, of what your inbox should look like. 2 times in the scene
Unorthodox frameworks for growing your product, career, and impact | Bangaly Kaba (YT, IG, FB)
- ▶ 56:50 Bangaly Kaba On, for that product to actually create a great experience for you, that if you were to go and create a new Gmail account and look at YouTube today,
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 53:35 Jag Duggal You know, Lenny, literally earlier in this week, I was listening to your podcast with, I believe it's Todd Jackson, uh, Nick's Gmail product leader and now venture capitalist.
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 1:23:28 Ebi Atawodi And so in my team now, we have like our email distro, like Gmail allows you to do the plus thing, plus PRD, and just ship your PRD, like even when it's getting big, and people will just help you shape it, right?
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 37:17 Paul Adams I worked on mobile Gmail, mobile docs, and it was like the mobile team.
- ▶ 1:21:54 Paul Adams So Paddy at Gmail at Paddy.
Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
- ▶ 0:08 Itamar Gilad One of the first early versions was actually, we showed the tabbed inbox working to people, but it wasn't really Gmail.
- ▶ 0:55 Lenny Rachitsky Itamar is a product coach, author, speaker, and former longtime product manager at Google, where he worked on Gmail, Identity, and YouTube.
- ▶ 4:44 Lenny Rachitsky I thought we'd start with the story of your work on Google Plus and Gmail and how those experiences formed your perspective on how to build successful product. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:10 Itamar Gilad So inside Gmail, the next project after Google plus was the tab inbox. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 52:35 Itamar Gilad To people, but it wasn't really Gmail.
How to measure and improve developer productivity | Nicole Forsgren (Microsoft Research, Github)
- ▶ 45:36 Nicole Forsgren On my website, I've got info.nicolefe at gmail.
The 10 traits of great PMs, AI, and Slack’s approach to product | Noah Weiss (Slack, Google)
- ▶ 3:33 Lenny Rachitsky Built to work with Gmail and Outlook, teams who use Superhuman spend half the time in their inboxes, respond to twice the number of emails, and save over four hours a week.
M&A, competition, pricing, and investing | Julia Schottenstein (dbt Labs)
- ▶ 3:25 Lenny Rachitsky Built to work with Gmail and Outlook, teams who use Superhuman spend half the time in their inboxes, respond to twice the number of emails, and save over four hours a week.
Building minimum lovable products, stories from WeWork & Airbnb, and thriving as a PM | Jiaona Zhang
- ▶ 27:15 Lenny Rachitsky Built to work with Gmail and Outlook, teams who use Superhuman spend half the time in their inboxes, respond to twice the number of emails, and save over four hours a week.
Lessons from scaling Ramp | Sri Batchu (Ramp, Instacart, Opendoor)
- ▶ 42:04 Lenny Rachitsky I actually tried to sign up for RAMP when I was starting this newsletter and business, and it didn't let me, because I, it was, I had a Gmail.
Building a long and meaningful career | Nikhyl Singhal (Meta, Google)
- ▶ 2:43 Lenny Rachitsky Built to work with Gmail and Outlook, teams who use Superhuman spend half the time in their inboxes, respond to twice the number of emails, and save over four hours a week.
How to make better decisions and build a joyful career | Ada Chen Rekhi (Notejoy, LinkedIn)
- ▶ 1:17:30 Ada Chen Rekhi beta.chan at gmail.com.
Taxi mafias, cash vaults & 100% MoM growth: The story of SEA’s biggest startup | Kevin Aluwi (Gojek)
- ▶ 1:02:02 Kevin Aluwi That's also my email, Kaluwi at gmail.com.
Hot takes and techno-optimism from tech’s top power couple | Sriram and Aarthi
- ▶ 1:12:35 Sriram Krishnan Because Amazon doesn't want Google to have that data inside Gmail system.
Lessons from scaling Stripe | Claire Hughes Johnson (ex-COO of Stripe)
- ▶ 1:16 Lenny Rachitsky VP of Global Online Sales, Director of Sales and Ops for Gmail, YouTube, Google Apps, and AdWords.
Mastering onboarding | Lauryn Isford (Head of Growth at Airtable)
- ▶ 1:02:26 Lauryn Isford Sigma, Mira, Slack, Gmail, and the fifth one.
How Notion leveraged community to build a $10B business | Camille Ricketts
- ▶ 1:04:59 Camille Ricketts Whenever I have to go back into Gmail to like set an autoresponder or whatever, I'm like, ah, my eyes.
The ultimate guide to SEO | Ethan Smith (Graphite)
- ▶ 1:01:14 Ethan Smith So special case would be tool pages, like a mortgage calculator or a body mass index calculator, or Zapier has integration pages, Google Sheets plus Gmail.
The art of product management | Shreyas Doshi (Stripe, Twitter, Google, Yahoo)
- ▶ 15:58 Shreyas Doshi If you remember, YouTube accounts used to be separate from Google accounts or Gmail accounts.
- ▶ 1:22:18 Shreyas Doshi And I learned this from Google's classic, where during its fast growth years, Google had the 70% search and ads, uh, you know, uh, 20% apps, which was like things like Gmail and whatnot, and 10% on, uh,
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 0:42 Lenny Rachitsky Ariel Jackson spent nine years Google, where she helped grow Gmail in its early days, taking it from just a side project to a product that is now used by hundreds of millions of people all over the world.