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Adams: Google Wave failed because 2007 browsers and users were unready
“Google wave itself, like the project I work on at Google was really prescient in what it wanted to do in terms of real time communications and collaborations. But it was early for a bunch of reasons, like browsers weren't quite ready. People weren't quite read…”
Cameron Adams Jul 19, 2024 ▶ 4:47 Cameron Adams: How Canva Builds Products: Lessons Learned, What Works? What Flopped? | E1179 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Freshworks repurposed its failed collaboration product to integrate with Slack and Teams
“So what we did was we conceded collaboration. So today our same fresh connect code that we built is integrating with Slack and teams. So we conceded collaboration to teams in Slack.”
Girish Mathrubootham Apr 19, 2024 ▶ 34:54 Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Disclosure
Freshworks lost collaboration market to Slack by taking two years to launch
“Like we took more than two years to launch, and by that time both Slack and Teams have actually started winning so many users, when we took it to our customers the CIOs actually told us, Girish, we are already dealing with slack and teams. We have to standardi…”
Girish Mathrubootham Apr 19, 2024 ▶ 34:16 Girish Mathrubootham: Biggest Product and Pricing Lessons from Scaling to $597M in ARR | E1142 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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