“Someone came up the idea… we should do an invite-based system… it kind of constrained the growth, but it also drummed up excitement”

Peter Mattis, Gmail team · The Pragmatic Engineer · Distributed databases with Peter Mattis

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launched Gmail as an invite-only beta to throttle early demand and create buzz

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