Re: Launch Announcement (Hand Raise...)

What’s Google’s motive for providing free email? Is it that they just want people to be able to communicate easily with one another, or is it that a major advertising conglomerate with a twelve-figure annual revenue stands to benefit tremendously by consuming and using all of your inbound and outbound communication? In comparison, Fastmail is a com... See more

Lead with commitment to a mission. It has to go beyond technology (eg: using AI) or making money (eg: Google cloud revenue). It has to be about making positive change in the world, for real people (users, customers) in the real world. Googlers are idealists at heart and their work needs to mean something. They also need to believe that their execu

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But Google didn’t know that asking Paul Buchheit to tinker with email would end up producing Gmail or that hiring Krishna Bharat would ultimately lead to the invention and development of Google News. Hiring X more engineers and setting up Y more workstations would not necessarily increase the company’s revenue.