Buchheit

Buchheit was on the fence, but his colleague Sanjeev made some back-of-the-envelope calculations and concluded that even a small percentage of people clicking on the ads would produce more than enough revenue to pay for Gmail.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

Soon Buchheit and his team including his office mate Sanjeev Singh, who became a colead on the project had a prototype, dubbed Caribou.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

“All the first version did was store and search email—Larry and Sergey said it would be nice to be able to reply to emails,” says Buchheit.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

Buchheit later said that that approach had been his idea.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

“Larry and Sergey literally became our first users,” says Buchheit.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

“That whole thing rubbed me the wrong way,” Buchheit later recalled.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011

YC has raised two pools of funding from outsiders -- $2 million in 2009 and $8 million in 2010, from the likes of Sequoia Capital and prominent angel investors Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut -- but that money is only for YC's small initial equity investments.

The Disruptor In The Valley Christopher Steiner 2010

YC has raised two pools of funding from outsiders -- $2 million in 2009 and $8 million in 2010, from the likes of Sequoia Capital and prominent angel investors Paul Buchheit and Aydin Senkut -- but that money is only for YC's small initial equity investments.

The Disruptor In The Valley Christopher Steiner 2010

When Paul Buchheit started the Gmail project at Google, he named it "Project Caribou" after a Dilbert cartoon strip.

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Mayer told Buchheit, who shared an office with her at the time, that targeting ads to email “is just going to be creepy and weird,” warning him that people would mistakenly assume that Google had a bunch of drones in some room who were reading your email and matching ads to the private expressions contained therein.

In the Plex Steven Levy 2011