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A comment on Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish you'd done much earlier?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by kortilla on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:06AM (#30343330)
Gmail was the world leading email provider before any of the google custom domain stuff.

You’re confusing google for work or whatever it’s called now with Gmail.

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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by fphhotchips on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:50AM (#30344521)
Personally I don't count "giving it away" as the product selling itself. GSuite - Google Docs, GMail for Business, Google Drive, etc. - has had enterprise sales teams for a long time.
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Re:Ask HN: What made your business take off that you wish yo... by kcplate on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @01:26AM (#30343426)
When gmail was included as the email client for their paid office subscription there definitely was salespeople involved, because I heard from them weekly trying to shill it to me. I’d argue that if you take a free product and want folks to pay for it, you obviously need salespeople as Google did.
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