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By the time people came to realize that free, Web-based email was indeed a hot idea, Hotmail was adding 1 million new subscribers a month.

— Steve Jurvetson

The challenge of email is that people send you stuff for free, and it becomes items on your to-do list.

— Esther Dyson

Our mail product, Hotmail, is the market leader globally.

— Steve Ballmer

Hotmail went from zero to 12 million users with zero marketing steps. Not a penny was spent on sales and marketing, which was astounding.…

— Steve Jurvetson

Hotmail grew its base faster than any company I can think of.

— Steve Jurvetson

The idea that you don't spam people with five emails a day or that you offer free shipping just seemed obvious to us, because…

— Neil Blumenthal

E-mail also changed things in that you don't have to write a full document to discuss something. You can just send an e-mail to…

— Steve Crocker

I just got a spam email with the subject Unlimited Free Pussies and now I am so fucking confused.

— Nikhil Saluja

Typically, your corporate e-mail account is not, today, that spam-targeted. It's more the free e-mail accounts that are spam-targeted.

— Bill Gates

Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool.

— Josh Kaufman

Qmail out of the box works fine, so people will want to use it regardless of licensing restrictions, even when the software does not…

— Wietse Venema

E-mail is a victim of its own success.

— Mitch Kapor