EP 40 - How Paul Buchheit Revolutionized Email with Gmail

0:00 Intro to Paul Buccheit 8:14 History of different emails 13:03 Building in public, 100 happy users 19:43 Gmail, over the years 27:35 Platforms built on open APIs 33:00 Iterate internally, User Experience 36:00 Advice for founders and startups, YC culture 50:00 Founders: Keep trying! Learn from failures 53:00 The state of Artificial Intelligence 1:00:00 I am nothing - identity, imposter syndrome, ego   Paul Buchheit is a computer engineer and entrepreneur who is best known as the creator of Gmail. He worked at a number of Silicon Valley companies, including Intel and Compaq, before joining Google in 1999. At Google, he played a key role in the development of a number of products, including AdSense and Google's search infrastructure.