Ok to skip OG dragon ball?

I've been seeing a bunch of stuff about dragon ball recently because of Sparking Zero and Daima so I've been wanting to get into it and I started watching the original show sometime in december-january but the streaming service I've been watching it on (hulu) had their licensing revoked and now have DBZ Kai as the earliest or most popular show on there. I was wondering if it were ok to skip the original show or not since I wanted to get context behind things and see some iconic characters like Yamcha and Yajirobe but Crunchyroll is the only platform that has it now iirc and I don't have that either so is it fine to start with Kai?