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The Age Of The 40-Year-Old Solo Founder Is Here · Y Combinator
Inside YC's AI Playbook · Y Combinator
- ▶ 32:55 Pete Koomen And, and the example that I used at the time was the, the kind of email writer that, uh, that the Gmail, uh,
- ▶ 40:56 Garry Tan And, um, the Google Gmail, like I can't change the prompt thing is like the perfect example of that. 2 times in the scene
How to Make Claude Code Your AI Engineering Team · Y Combinator
The AI Agent Economy Is Here · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:28 Jared Friedman Cause like in theory, you could maybe get your open claw to like sign up for a Gmail account in order to use email, but it's like actually really hard to get it to do that because Gmail and every email provider has intentionally made it as… 2 times in the scene
Andrew Ng: Building Faster with AI · Y Combinator
How To Design Better AI Apps · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:40 Pete Koomen The example that I chose in my essay, uh, was to pick on the integration that the Gmail team built between their AI model, Gemini, and Gmail's, uh, interface that, uh, this is a little draft writing agent that can create 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:20 Pete Koomen The feature that I chose as my example was this little draft writing agent that shows up in the Gmail interface and
- ▶ 4:18 David Lieb The people who work on Gmail, I know a lot of them, they're not dunces, right? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:02 Pete Koomen Well, what's actually happening under the hood when I ask this Gmail agent for a draft is that this Gmail agent, this little UI, 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:07 Pete Koomen And so just to illustrate what's possible, let's imagine that Gmail allowed me to not only see, but edit this system prompt for myself. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:13 Pete Koomen And so, going back to your question, why did the Gmail team hide, decide to hide this system prompt away? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:12 Pete Koomen I think the, the deepest problem here is that when the, when the Gmail team set out to build this, they kind of asked, how can we slot AI into the Gmail application? 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:01 Tom Blomfield It's like, um, Google put Gmail out and if you write, uh, an email full of profanity, that's on you, right?
- ▶ 21:11 David Lieb Like my mom uses Gmail every day, but is she going to write a system prompt? 2 times in the scene
DoorDash CEO: Customer Obsession, Surviving Startup Death & Creating A New Market · Y Combinator
Bob McGrew: AI Agents And The Path To AGI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:18 Bob McGrew It should be able to, you know, see your slacks and your, your Gmail and all the, all the different
How Do Billion Dollar Startups Start? · Y Combinator
- ▶ 8:41 Harj Taggar And like, we, we had Paul Buhite, the founder of Gmail, early Google employee in the interview, just like hammering on Spencer saying like, Google, this Google is so great at this.
Tips For Technical Startup Founders | Startup School · Y Combinator
The Best Way To Launch Your Startup | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 2:53 Kat Mignalek Paul Buchheit, he's the creator of Gmail and a longtime YC group partner.
How To Talk To Users | Startup School · Y Combinator
- ▶ 11:43 Gustaf Alströmer So early days of Gmail, users were asking, um, Paul Buchheit, the founder of Gmail, to view both the inbox and the actual email that they were reading on the same screen. 2 times in the scene
Things That Don't Scale, The Software Edition – Dalton Caldwell and Michael Seibel · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:33 Michael Seibel Well, PB is the inventor of Gmail, and as kind of a side project at Google, he invented something that 1.5 billion people on earth actively use. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:55 Michael Seibel Well, this part was that everyone thought Gmail's, like, um, invite system 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:08 Dalton Caldwell And so their hack was the nine intent solution, like PB use for Gmail, which is like, just don't do it.
Matt Cutts on the US Digital Service and Working at Google for 17 Years · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:20 Craig Cannon How do you, cause I know the, the story with PB creating Gmail is just like a one guy goof.
Updates for Startup School 2019 and Office Hours with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:38 Kevin Hale And that is the era where, like, Gmail just kind of came out.
Monetizing Podcasts and Newsletters - Chris Best of Substack and Jonathan Gill of Backtracks · Y Combinator
- ▶ 46:19 Chris Best Just like literally make your first post and then like tell people about it and like add your like mom and a few other people from your Gmail contacts, like into your list and just go.
HubSpot CEO and Cofounder Brian Halligan with Wufoo Cofounder Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 33:44 Brian Halligan Gmail, Slack.
Mike Knoop on Product and Design Processes for Remote Teams with Kevin Hale · Y Combinator
- ▶ 13:51 Mike Knoop We had a shared Gmail inbox, like, or not even that.
- ▶ 48:27 Mike Knoop Yeah, I still, I still do keep my Gmail tab open.
The Path to $100B by Paul Buchheit · Y Combinator
- ▶ 0:12 Geoff Ralston Paul is known for a lot of things, not the least of which is his wisdom in all things when it comes to startups, but he's also, of course, the creator of Gmail, the, um, inventor, this is true, of Don't Be Evil,
- ▶ 11:15 Geoff Ralston Um, before we move on to your, to leaving Google and, um, starting your own company, just maybe say a word about the founding of Gmail and, and how that happened.
- ▶ 18:58 Geoff Ralston Ok, so Gmail happened, and then you left. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:47 Geoff Ralston Like you said, you built Gmail originally for.
- ▶ 30:45 Paul Buchheit It's just a very exciting feeling to have, like, these products, like, like when we were building Gmail and Maps and stuff, like, there was this feeling, this palpable feeling of, like, this is gonna blow people's minds when we put it out…
A Conversation with Elad Gil · Y Combinator
Running Your Company by Patrick Collison · Y Combinator
- ▶ 49:58 Patrick Collison Um, but I think that sort of the, the, the most successful larger organizations somehow, uh, do succeed in sort of this, um, uh, iterative, repeated, repeated process of kind of augmentation, uh, you know, Amazon and Google being kind of…
Mathilde Collin on Feature Prioritization and Employee Retention at Front · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:03 Mathilde Collin Um, so I would describe it as a shared inbox, so you can think about it as, you know, what Gmail or Outlook does, but we've added collaboration features and workflows so that it works better for teams.
- ▶ 1:52 Mathilde Collin Yeah, meaning in order to have a product that people will use for their individual emails, you need to get to a level of feature parity with Gmail or Outlook that's pretty intense, and so even if you could do it four years ago, it's only… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:25 Craig Cannon How do you feel about a Gmail, or rather Google wrapping up inbox? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:25 Craig Cannon Individual emails into front that people were asking for like all these like vestigial features of Gmail that you're like, this is going to be ended at some point, but they still want it.
- ▶ 36:07 Mathilde Collin So for example, uh, PB, uh, who created Gmail was, uh, is one of the partners at YC. 3 times in the scene
A Conversation with Paul Graham - Moderated by Geoff Ralston · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:04 Paul Graham Y Combinator has the people who wrote Yahoo Mail and Gmail. 3 times in the scene
Advice for Students and Recent Graduates on Finding Jobs – Liz Wessel of WayUp · Y Combinator
- ▶ 7:59 Liz Wessel So, to start, I have Reportive on my computer, which is this software that LinkedIn bought, but basically if you install it into Chrome and your Gmail, what you can do is you can figure out someone's email, if you can't find it already… 2 times in the scene
Breaking Down HackerRank's Survey of 40,000 Developers with Vivek Ravisankar · Y Combinator
- ▶ 14:35 Vivek Ravisankar Uh, and then you, you see all these five people, there's a creator of Gmail, there's this, uh, you're obviously a little stressed, and then you don't have a co-founder, and PG asked, where is your co-founder?
- ▶ 34:57 Vivek Ravisankar I think that's how Gmail was born, uh, where I think Paul Bouquet worked on his 20% free time, uh, to build Gmail. 2 times in the scene
Paul Buchheit - Startup Investor School Day 2 · Y Combinator
- ▶ 1:47 Geoff Ralston He has also, ah, notably the inventor of Gmail,
- ▶ 8:21 Paul Buchheit As Jeff mentioned, launched Gmail.
- ▶ 56:37 Paul Buchheit And so, you know, a lot of the email stuff, they're like tweaking Gmail, and I'm like, okay, what if Google just adds this feature? 2 times in the scene
Uncut Interview with Sam Altman on Masters of Scale [Audio] · Y Combinator
- ▶ 51:57 Sam Altman Gmail probably.
It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo · Y Combinator
- ▶ 4:04 Sam Chaudhary Um, and then we check out, I think Liam has some kind of super juiced up kind of Gmail inbox, whatever.
Casey Neistat and Matt Hackett on Live Video's Struggle for Interestingness · Y Combinator
- ▶ 36:16 Casey Neistat I had that as a Gmail filter.
VMware Cofounder Diane Greene with Jessica Livingston at the Female Founders Conference · Y Combinator
- ▶ 19:13 Diane Greene And, ah, you know, you look at something like, you know, you want your OS in the cloud, updated constantly, and tiny, and, and monitored, you know, and, you know, it's, it's like Gmail, you know, we, over 1.2 billion users, so we can see…