Gmail
3 statements across 3 episodes · 0 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement May 30, 2023 by Einar Vollset · said 25 times in 15 episodes since 2020 · across every show →
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2020 11 mentions in 6 episodes 2 per episode
- Episode 504 | 15 Tools We Use to Run Our Business
- Episode 487 | Startup Roundtable Discussing Hey.com, Leadpages’ Acquisition, and More Hot Topics
- Episode 525 | A Bootstrapping Artifact from 2005
- Episode 521 | A Roundtable Discussion about a Potential Recession, Working from Home,
- Episode 506 | Shutting Down and Starting Up with Derrick Reimer
- Episode 497 | Documenting SaaS for a Sale, Email Harvesting and Spam, and More Listener Questions
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Everything said about Gmail, oldest first
May 30, 2023 negative
Connecting Gmail data to OpenAI APIs is not a defensible startup
“If it's an obvious idea and a huge competitive market with large incumbents, you know what? Those guys are going to take that. That's they're going to own that piece. And so like building your startups around that and thinking like, oh, I'm smarter. I'm more n…”
Dec 9, 2025 neutral
New startups cannot get away with Gmail-level messy UI design.
“If you're a newer entrant to the market, like, making sure you have a reputation of, like, a certain level of quality is often important. You know, like, Gmail can get away with that because it's Gmail. But like, Your new app that's trying to be viewed as cred…”
Jun 16, 2026 negative
Gomez: Prompting Users for Business Emails Reduced SignWell Conversions by 30%
“So we tried that, and this was one of the things we're like, yeah, not that Google sign up. Let's make them type in, and then, like, say, you know, type your business. And we didn't cut them off if they tried Gmail, but we just, and we had a, like, I don't kno…”