This is bad. Very bad.
Like ELE-level bad!
Think about it:
Your startup, with all your best ideas and innovations, sends all your email via Gmail.
Then, your startup's email, containing all your best ideas and innovations, is read by some 3rd-party yob, in the name of ‘app development’.
This 3rd-party yum-yum, with access to emails containing all of your startup’s best ideas and innovations, now decides to literally use you for his or her personal R&D. Reading all you good stuff. Cataloging all your good stuff. Maintaining a shadow company for all your good stuff. Registering, trademarking, or patenting all YOUR good stuff.
By the time you’re ready to goto market, guess what?
Your game-changing innovation is now owned by some thieving mofo.
All because you trusted your email to Google.
Dare I ask how sunny your days going forward would be?
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