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To: Mark Oliver who wrote (8031)	2/14/2000 1:09:00 PM
From: dgurgel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10081

Nice valuation - $850 million for onebox.com. GMGC at $20 per share would be $850 mil. See www.onebox.com. (You know my theory - technology firms that are going places mow the grass, i.e. tend to their site.) Management Team Ross Bott, President and CEO Marc Linden, Vice President and CFO Bill Nguyen, Co-Founder and VP of Business Development Greg Doherty, VP of Engineering Board of Directors Siva Kumar, Co-Founder and Chairman Jeffrey D. Brody, Partner, Brentwood Venture Capital Peter Gotcher, Partner, Institutional Venture Partners Tim Haley, Partner, Institutional Venture Partners Ross Bott, Onebox.com Bill Nguyen, Onebox.com Here is a June 1999 NY Times mention of one-box. Voice Mail and Faxes Add Intrigue to E-Mail Offer Free e-mail may be about to become a lot more interesting. A small start-up company called Onebox.com plans on Monday to start a new service on the Web that combines free e-mail with free voice mail and free incoming faxes. If the company can iron out some bugs in its service, if its business model holds up and if the technology can handle thousands of users, Onebox.com could find itself at the front of a new wave of Internet messaging. Darcy Padilla for The New York Times Bill Nguyen is one founder of Onebox.com, which plans free voice mail and fax service. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Free e-mail, generally supported by advertising, has become common online, through services like Microsoft's Hotmail.com. But Onebox.com goes further. Not only does it offer free e-mail, but each user is to receive a free personal voice mail account. Onebox.com will start by offering local numbers only in Austin, Tex., and San Mateo, Calif., but even as a long-distance service it could find popularity among corporate road warriors. That is because the voice mail accounts can receive faxes as well as voice messages, which are listed in on-screen directories. The voice mail account is also accessible from a normal telephone, though the service will not be able to read e-mail or fax messages to the user over the phone. "People have tried to solve unified messaging by doing a telephone approach, by stuffing everything into the phone," said Bill Nguyen, a company founder. "But we stuff everything into the Web instead." There were still some bugs last week, mostly with the fax capabilities. The fax display quality was low, printing faxes did not always work on command and figuring out how to send a fax to the service could be confusing. Nonetheless, Onebox.com has found at least one convert: ZDnet, a unit of Softbank, which has signed up as Onebox.com's first Web distributor. -- SETH SCHIESEL