“Some people can sell their ideas with a brilliant speech or a slick powerpoint presentation. I can't. Maybe that's why I'm skeptical of ideas that are sold via brilliant speeches and slick powerpoints. [...] We did a lot of things wrong during the 2.5 years of pre-launch Gmail development, but one thing we did very right was to always have live code [...] every new feature went live immediately, and most new ideas were implemented as soon as possible. [...] The great thing about this process was that I didn't need to sell anyone on my ideas. I would just write the code, release the feature, and watch the response.”
