[javiercr]

On Episode 01 of The Social Radars podcast [1], Paul Buchheit, creator of GMail, explains that the Gmail invite-only beta was actually due to shortage in hardware and difficulties to scale the service, rather than a just a "growth hack". It seems they were running the service for a long time near 100% capacity.

[1] https://open.spotify.com/episode/0oRAHcP9g41jcEzpDtOa4b?si=1...

[FormerBandmate]

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