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Google Part II: Alphabet (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 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.
- ▶ 43:56 Ben Gilbert Yeah, Jonathan Rochelle, the founder of the company that would be acquired that would become Google Spreadsheets.
- ▶ 44:14 Ben Gilbert And when the Sheets team came in, it was truly an open question of, can we make it so you and another person can party on the same very basic spreadsheet at the same time?
- ▶ 47:33 David Rosenthal Running docs and sheets, the incremental load to Google's infrastructure was trivial compared to search.
- ▶ 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
- ▶ 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…
Microsoft Volume II: The Complete History and Strategy of the Ballmer Years (Audio) · Acquired
- ▶ 3:19:38 David Rosenthal I bet a lot of listeners use Google Sheets.
- ▶ 3:19:42 David Rosenthal Also use Excel, but if you do use Google Sheets, you are in the minority.
- ▶ 3:32:27 Ben Gilbert They do something like universal binary with the apps, where all the same apps that I had installed on my Mac, they now run their iOS counterpart, they grab all the data that's stored in the same places, so all my apps, you know, it knows…