Interview with Paul Buchheit

http://www.crazyengineers.com/small-talk/1-cover-story/78-small-talk-with-mr-paul-buchheit-creator-of-gmail-adsense-a-friendfeed

by markup • 17 years ago

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davi• 17 years ago

We used Gmail internally and all had a lot of email, so we never even considered designs that wouldn't allow for a lot of mail.

Another example of the utility of eating one's own dogfood.

timcederman2• 17 years ago

Is it?

I would say it's generally a good benefit to have, but I'd say the vast majority of personal email users don't use a lot of mail. Certainly not on the scale of Google engineers.

I'd call it a good selling point and competitive differentiator, but it wasn't some magical thing discovered because they were using it themselves. He said they never even considered other designs.

paul• 17 years ago

In terms of impact, it's much better to build a product for people who spend several hours/day using email instead of those who login once every few weeks to delete their spam. For the latter case, just about anything is good enough (even Hotmail).

thepanister3• 17 years ago

I am very big fan of Paul! This guy is more than awesome.

In everytime I read his blog, and in everytime I read something he says... I just learn something new or a good habit that I should have!

Interview with Paul Buchheit

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