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We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink

In 1997, about a year after launch, Hotmail was growing exponentially, adding thousands of new users every day. We were on fire. And then one night, it all seemed to unravel. We had a program called the “janitor” that ran as an overnight batch process and it erased all of the email that users put...
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Mar 25, 2014We’re Fucked, It’s Over: Coming Back from the Brink by rajbala351112

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