Gokul Rajaram

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1,839 appearances 2 recordings 2 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 16 Mar

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I'll tell you a story at Google.

When I joined in 2003, there was a project going on called Caribou internally.

I was like, what the hell is this?

This was web email which gave one gigabyte free storage.

And back then, Yahoo Mail offered 10 megabytes of storage.

So it was 100x.

I was like, there's no way it's possible.

And it turns out it was.

And it was released on, if you remember, April 1st, 2003.

and that people thought it was an April Fool's joke, but that was Google literally taking something that was unbelievable and making it reality.

And so that's the kind of products I like, something remarkable, something unique, something powerful.

What is interesting is that even if you have a remarkable product,

You still need distribution.

Facebook taught me the power of distribution.

Mark, I think, is the best distribution genius in the world.

He would look at a product and say, this is how this product is not going to work.

And it taught me the power of multiplayer products in particular.

Most software products are single player.

And as soon as you make the multiplayer, there is a uniqueness in switching distribution, et cetera, that comes about.

Facebook, by nature, you can't use it if you only have one person on Facebook.

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