Internet users send billions of emails daily, many of which can be traced to the ingenuity of Paul Buchheit, who invented Gmail. Buchheit, the #23 employee at Google, was also responsible for Friendfeed, a social networking site later acquired by Facebook, now Meta.
Buchheit is credited with coining Google鈥檚 former company motto, 鈥淒on鈥檛 be evil.鈥� He actively supports startups as an angel investor and is partner emeritus at the Y Combinator business accelerator headquartered in San Francisco, California.