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10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired Dec 15, 2025 · 2 mentions

Google Part III: The AI Company. Google is amazingly well-positioned... will they win in AI? (Audio) · Acquired Oct 6, 2025 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 18:30 David Rosenthal This is the era of all the great, great products coming out of Google that we've talked about, you know, Maps and Gmail and Docs and all the wonderful things that Chrome and Android are going to come later.
  • ▶ 3:40:46 David Rosenthal Everything that we talked about in part two, the alphabet episode, all of the other products within Google, Gmail, Maps, Docs, Chrome, Android,

Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired Aug 26, 2025 · 18 mentions

  • ▶ 1:18 Ben Gilbert Docs and spreadsheets with real-time collaboration for the first time.
  • ▶ 5:47 David Rosenthal Gmail, Maps, the forthcoming Google Docs.
  • ▶ 29:43 David Rosenthal Like they'll do with maps, like they'll do with docs, like they'll do with YouTube that we're about to talk about.
  • ▶ 32:26 David Rosenthal So the next big web apps following Gmail were maps, docs, and spreadsheets.
  • ▶ 42:05 David Rosenthal Docs and spreadsheets.
  • ▶ 42:30 David Rosenthal Docs and spreadsheets hit Microsoft right where it hurts.
  • ▶ 43:40 David Rosenthal I talked to Sam Chilis, the founder of Rightly, which Google acquired, which became Google Docs.
  • ▶ 44:25 David Rosenthal The Docs team, so Docs was an acquisition.
  • ▶ 46:49 Ben Gilbert For the longest time it was, oh, a Google Doc, that's like a thing for either you use that for your personal life or maybe like a startup would use it, but even a medium-sized company, you can't be serious.
  • ▶ 47:33 David Rosenthal Running docs and sheets, the incremental load to Google's infrastructure was trivial compared to search.
  • ▶ 49:01 Ben Gilbert When you have that requirement, that is a hard, hard engineering task, and it's still not as good as Google Docs.
  • ▶ 49:42 Ben Gilbert Someone just shares a Google doc with you.
  • ▶ 50:34 David Rosenthal Yeah, I mean, I think if you look at users of docs or sheets or slides, it's in the billion-ish, five hundred million, billion range for each of those.
  • ▶ 52:04 David Rosenthal He would go on to manage all of Docs and Sheets, and I think he actually managed Maps at some point, too.
  • ▶ 53:13 David Rosenthal On the back of the success of maps, docs, spreadsheets, really starts to inform Google's strategy here, and specifically they've seen, hey, we can acquire
  • ▶ 2:24:17 Ben Gilbert Google Docs and spreadsheets were that way.
  • ▶ 3:51:23 Ben Gilbert Famously, I mean, that, that run in the 2010, aside from the big ones, from YouTube, from Android, from DoubleClick, from AdMob, there was also what became Google Groups, Spreadsheets, Docs, Blogger, they bought Applied Semantics with the…
  • ▶ 3:59:36 Ben Gilbert You look at maps and docs with real-time collaboration.

The Jamie Dimon Interview: How JP Morgan Became an $800 Billion Bank · Acquired Jul 16, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:54 David Rosenthal They have pre-built integrations with Gmail and Google Docs, and also services like Jira, Asana, Linear, Square, PayPal, as well as custom integrations for any internal tool that you have.

TSMC · Acquired Jan 21, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 4:14 Ben Gilbert And we've had TSMC on the agenda to do for like two and a half years now in our little Google doc.

Amazon Web Services · Acquired Sep 6, 2022 · 1 mention

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