# Paul Buchheit, Creator of Gmail

**Author:** The Social Radars
**Type:** Essay
**URL:** https://www.ycombinator.com/library/Jc-paul-buchheit-creator-of-gmail


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In this episode of The Social Radars, Jessica Livingston and Carolynn Levy talk to Paul Buchheit, a Group Partner at YC
and the creator of Gmail. Listen in on this “deep dive into the history of Gmail, including the fact that it might never
have launched if it weren’t for a leak to the New York Times.”

