Twenty years ago, as Morgan Stanley banker Michael Grimes was helping lead the public offering for the young company behind the Google search engine, one of the most anticipated IPOs of the decade, he was among the first people offered a new email service. He had his pick of any identifier he wanted, so he asked for [email protected].
Sergey Brin, Google’s co-founder, chimed in. Grimes remembers Brin telling him, “Oh no, you don’t want that….