My advice is to never, ever, ever rely on Google Workspace for a startup. Office 365 is a little bit less usable, but Microsoft can work with businesses.<p>I used Google Workspace for a startup. Startup went idle for a while. Google sent a message to me warning the account would be terminated unless I logged in on some short timeline. GMail filed its own email as spam. Boom. Everything from that startup was gone.<p>I used Google Workspace for my family domain. Google decided to discontinue GSuite/Free. Now, I'm SOL.<p>I've had similar experiences with Youtube. I build a major startup with Google as a partner. Videos were on Youtube. Google had 4 engineers assigned to us. Youtube has a bug which took us down. There was no way to resolve the bug, even with a team supporting us (in a different part of Google). We had to migrate off.<p>I've more recently been involved in businesses integrating with Workspace. On the API side, Google suddenly required a security audit for our business integrations to keep working. That's tens of thousands of dollars. Many small businesses went under when Google introduced this. (<a href="https://www.prescientsecurity.com/google-oauth-api-verification" rel="nofollow">https://www.prescientsecurity.com/google-oauth-api-verificat...</a>)<p>We also had an extension, which is in the process of breaking with Manifest V3 (<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening" rel="nofollow">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-ma...</a>). Again, many Google partners are going out-of-business over this.<p>Each time I've done business with Google, I've eventually been !@#$%.<p>These are all true stories, but they're not all the true stories I have. I have a much longer collection of stories of being !@#$% by Google. Some I can't talk about have to do with Workspace security issues. BOY was that a rabbit hole. If I could talk about it, you'd never do business with Google either. Google has excellent security for their data, but not for your data.<p>Google doesn't mind killing your livelihood with random changes like these. It happens over, and over, and over. Everyone thinks it won't happen to them, until it does.