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Verbatim, from the transcripts: passages where Google Docs comes up on Top Founders, 20VC, the Startup Ideas Podcast, Lenny's Podcast, My First Million
Grit is not enough: Angela Duckworth on how to change your situation
- ▶ 17:55 Angela Duckworth It was a study by economists on remote work, and what they did was they looked at professions that were easily, um, transitioning to remote because they were things that could be done through video calls and, you know, Google Docs and so…
How Tanay Tandon is Building a $100 Billion Healthcare AI Company
- ▶ 16:43 Tanay Tandon Uh, and, uh, there's more customization required and more implementation time required when you work with a large system, but our long-term belief is that the best software products, you look at Microsoft Word, you look at Google Docs, you…
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 19:26 Tara Seshan Just like a colleague who you hire, who you like lock into a room, never give them access to like Google docs and Slack and the company database would not be that useful to you.
How I Use Skills + AI Agents to Run My Life
- ▶ 5:57 unnamed speaker And then Google Docs thankfully solved that.
Demis Is Out as DeepMind CEO, Revolut Founder Yacht Drama, AI’s Great Reverse Bank Run | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:24 John Coogan There's also a Gemini button in Google Docs.
Leo Aschenbrenner's Situational Awareness Blows Up | Moonshot AI Raises $3.5B at $35B
- ▶ 26:28 Jason Lemkin And, um, and I'm, I, among other things, I've got a Google Doc
The Agents #12 - Our AI Agent Rewrote Our App Without Telling Us
- ▶ 20:33 Jason Lemkin And so we moved our staff meetings from a Google doc when we started to Notion driving our staff meetings and everyone, and we had a dashboard for everybody and everybody would update their dashboard in Notion.
Jensen's Open-Weights Letter | Google Cloud Grows 82% But The Market Tanks
- ▶ 11:39 Jason Lemkin That's a draft file in a Google Doc.
OpenAI’s Vision for the AI Super App — Akshay Nathan, OpenAI
- ▶ 25:51 Shawn Wang There's Excel, there's PowerPoint, there's Docs, you know, the grand trio of work.
Most Valuable Skill of 2026: Managing AI Agents
- ▶ 40:15 Ryan Carson Create Google Docs, and check your email, and do all this information work, and, and basically get it for free, I mean, you're paying 200 bucks, and you get almost infinite tokens, like, awesome.
Excellence Is the Capacity to Take Pain
- ▶ 2:15 Kaz Nejatian Send me a Google Doc that was going to be my announcement, that this guy's going to become the CEO of the company.
FDE: The $1M/Year AI Job Explained
- ▶ 9:13 unnamed speaker Like, when something goes wrong that's not really documented in an SOP or in like a, in a Word doc or a Google doc somewhere, you're going to see that play out.
Grok 4.5 is a bigger deal than Fable 5
Why Now is the Time for the App Layer | Why Startups Should be TokenMaxxing | Mike Mignano, USV · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 40:18 Mike Mignano You gotta give up your Gmail, and your Google Docs, and your Google Sheets, and your calendar, right?
Big Technology AI Summit (full): Greg Brockman, Mike Krieger, Aaron Levie & Friends of The Podcast
- ▶ 2:55:47 Mike Krieger Data gravity, like the data gravity of something like your Google Docs are in your Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
Anthropic's Labs Lead On Fable's Capabilities + Building AI-Native Products — With Mike Krieger
- ▶ 36:16 Mike Krieger Data gravity, like the data gravity of something like your Google Docs and your Google Docs.
Flexport CEO: Two Questions Every Founder Needs to Ask · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:50 Ryan Petersen They, they choose, um, I think they're still more, they're still more habit formed on Claude, but, um, they use Codex, we, we're cursor users, we use everything, um, as an enterprise, we've been more Gemini, uh, because we're Google Docs…
The Economics of AI Usage and What's Next For SaaS | Benedict Evans on a16z
- ▶ 36:30 Benedict Evans Look at Google Docs.
He hit $1M ARR by sending 500,000 cold emails—then raised a $25M Series A in 6 days. | Mark Hughe... · PMF Show
- ▶ 24:46 Mark Hughes The messaging that would lead to like higher kind of conversion rates from first calls booked, I'd be like, okay, put that in a Google doc.
How to Rewire Your Brain to Hate Procrastination
- ▶ 3:57 Codie Sanchez The book is still three paragraphs in a Google Doc.
- ▶ 15:36 Codie Sanchez I had a Google doc.
Google I/O: Day 1 Reactions, Goldman to Lead SpaceX IPO | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 9:37 John Coogan Some people are still using that, but in terms of like wiring into your life, there are way more people that see Google docs, Gmail as like the central node in their personal life. 2 times in the scene
How Anthropic's Head of Industries Built an AI-Native Sales Org from Scratch
- ▶ 9:29 Eleanor Dorfman They pull in any historical context from Slack, from Google docs, from previous gone calls. 3 times in the scene
Google I/O, Fertility Decline, Spotify Logo Drama | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 2:13 unnamed speaker And I was writing this, uh, update in a Google doc. 5 times in the scene
PwC’s Dallas Dolen: AI Hardware’s Advantage, TokenMaxxing, Automation’s Impact
- ▶ 23:31 Dallas Dolen You don't have to do that.
Inside Abridge: The AI Listening to 100 Million Doctor Visits — Abridge's Janie Lee & Chai Asawa
- ▶ 57:57 Chai Asawa Um, or thinking about patterns in which humans collaborated with each other on Google Docs.
Speed, Stress, and Better Decisions | Winston Weinberg
- ▶ 0:12 Shane Parrish I want to double click on this massive, 200 page, 400 page Google document that you have.
- ▶ 7:26 Shane Parrish If you were to create a Google document of your principles for decision-making, what would be in it?
- ▶ 35:23 Winston Weinberg What I like to do a lot is I go through, like, a Google Doc, and I do, like, a live editing process, um, 2 times in the scene
Sam vs Elon Trial, Coinbase Cuts 14% in AI Pivot, Digesting Meta Earnings | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 4:09 unnamed speaker And it feels like it also might just be like a Google doc that he's taking notes in, or like a notes app.
How Brian Chesky Is Redesigning Airbnb for the AI Era · Invest Like The Best
- ▶ 59:23 Brian Chesky When I started in media, I was 25, 26, and we were competing against Expedia, and we were on like, they were on like Outlook, and we used Google Docs, and we were like, we had an iPhone.
Managing 20+ AI Agents: Lazy Agents, Our $500K AI Bill, Stealth Churn & the Death of 60% Solutions
- ▶ 27:27 Jason Lemkin Is I write something in a Google doc and then I co-write it with Claude to get help and then I edit it and publish it.
Flip Reaches $12M ARR with AI Voice Support for 250 Brands
- ▶ 4:38 Nathan Latka Is it a bunch of Google docs?
Ai Goes Parabolic | OpenAI Co-Founder Greg Brockman
- ▶ 20:32 Greg Brockman So many people were trying to sign the petition at once, it actually crashed Google Docs.
- ▶ 24:59 Shane Parrish If I were to say, like, open a Google document, write out sort of what you learned about yourself on one page from this whole starting to Sam getting out of state, to you quitting, to inspiring all this loyalty to the time off and then…
#2302 Superpowering Claude with 10,000 apps
- ▶ 13:02 Wade Foster So you have each meeting, uh, a, a Google doc that gets generated that says, um, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 19:35 Wade Foster The team has this Google doc. 3 times in the scene
The Listing Fix That Led Utilize to a Successful Exit
- ▶ 10:52 Andrew Gazdecki Uh, living Q and A at Acquire, or if you're selling your startup, you put every buyer's questions on one Google document and you just answer the question, keep it there.
The history and future of AI at Google, with Sundar Pichai
- ▶ 59:14 John Collison My other product idea is, for some reason, I don't know if this is your lived experience, but it's certainly my lived experience, that searching Google Docs is so much harder than, say, searching Gmail. 2 times in the scene
Should Software Companies Embrace AI or fight it? — With Asana Chief Product Officer Arnab Bose
- ▶ 13:22 Arnab Bose And so when you give it that feedback, it will, in real time, recalc its research plan and update it, and then ultimately produce a brief, uh, either in a Google document format or, or Word, depending on how you set it up, uh, and then the…
How I use iMessage and AI to run my life
- ▶ 1:58 unnamed speaker So, uh, basically what Lindy Assistant is, is it's an AI assistant that lives on iMessage, that's really important, uh, lives on iMessage, connects to your email, your calendar, your Notion, your Google Docs, like all the applications you…
- ▶ 8:02 unnamed speaker Um, and I'm like, oh yeah, can you please like bring a Google Doc together and, and send it to, uh, Lindy, like send it to the folks on, on Slack. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:51 unnamed speaker I mean, everything you can think about really like notion, Google docs, HubSpot, Salesforce, ITO, Twilio, like you name it.
- ▶ 28:33 unnamed speaker I, I call my Lindy every so often, at least once a week, and it's awesome because she's in all of my meetings, she's seen all of my emails, and I have her maintain a Google Doc.
OpenClaw, Claude Code, and the Future of Software | Peter Yang on The a16z Show
- ▶ 2:22 Peter Yang It, um, can update Google documents for me.
- ▶ 6:04 Peter Yang Like, can you update my Google Doc?
- ▶ 15:41 Peter Yang I don't want to like write a, like, I hate writing Google Docs, dude. 2 times in the scene
Four CEOs on the Future of AI: CoreWeave, Perplexity, Mistral, and IREN
- ▶ 1:16:28 Jason Calacanis When I installed it, I gave it, just for my agent, root access to my Google
Benedict Evans: OpenAI’s Moat Problem & the Future of Software
- ▶ 57:20 Benedict Evans I mean, maybe some of the technical implementation might not have worked, doing it in the browser might not have worked, but it's basically Google Docs for video.
The product wisdom every CPO should ignore | Jeremy Epling (CPO, Vanta)
- ▶ 43:08 Jeremy Epling Now that, now that like Google docs have tabs, it's kind of all in like one doc with a lot of different tabs that we call the product plan doc.
Anthropic’s Felix Rieseberg on AI Coworkers, Local-First Agents, and the Future of Knowledge Work
- ▶ 1:23:08 Felix Rieseberg And I think for a while we've been like, we built so much tech around Claude leaving useful comments inside a Google Doc, and now it just does it, just like leaves a comment in your Google Doc and that's how you interact with it. 2 times in the scene
Creating prediction markets (and suing the CFTC) with Tarek Mansour and Luana Lopes Lara
- ▶ 4:24 Tarek Mansour You know, we, we create this doc, one page on Google Docs, and we wrote a set of things like, why should we do this company?
Inside a16z’s Top 100 AI Apps Report with Olivia Moore
- ▶ 11:03 Anish Acharya The existing product services, like Sheets or Docs, there's just so much, one sort of momentum and inertia from the past, but then management overhead around those, it's harder for them to do anything other than the most obvious…
Why Every Agent Needs a Box — Aaron Levie, Box
- ▶ 47:30 Aaron Levie They're just sharing some data through a collaborative file system and Google docs or box or whatever.
SaaS is minting millionaires again (here's how)
- ▶ 4:32 Greg Isenberg You can be doing this on pen and paper where you're writing out these workflows, Google docs.
The Most Important Career Advice You'll Ever Hear (In The AI Era) | Bill Gurley
- ▶ 35:03 Bill Gurley Create a file, you know, in whatever digital folder type thing you like to use, Notion or, or Google Docs or whatever.
Brian Armstrong: When Washington Tried to Kill Coinbase
- ▶ 1:41:44 Brian Armstrong So it's widely, even, even like decision making in the company, the key was getting a lot of our data ingested, like all the Google Docs and the Slack messages and the GitHub commits and the Salesforce.
AI Needs to Know Why You took THAT decision | Ashu Garg, Investor at Foundation Capital
Dumb iPhone Apps Are Making People Rich Again (Here’s how)
- ▶ 4:21 Sam Parr It was as if you just sent people a Google doc, the same Google doc over and over and over again, and you asked questions, and they typed out the replies, and then you created, um, a graphic at the top, and it said, uh, here's one. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:02 Sam Parr You sent me a thing where you have your Google Sheet, or sorry, your Google Doc, that you have for every single video that you made.
Inside Opendoor: The $2.8B Bet with CEO Kaz Nejatian · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
- ▶ 17:15 Kaz Nejatian Um, it was, um, Google doc. 2 times in the scene
The AI Tsunami is Here & Society Isn't Ready | Dario Amodei x Nikhil Kamath | People by WTF · Nikhil Kamath
- ▶ 26:44 Dario Amodei Like, you know, we can, we can integrate Claude into Google Docs.
AI and SaaS
- ▶ 21:19 Benedict Evans And frame.io says, no, we're going to make Google locks a video. 2 times in the scene
OpenAI's Codex Lead: Why Coding as We Know It is Over · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:35 Alexander Emberikos Or it's talking to your Google Docs or something.
- ▶ 1:01:12 Alexander Emberikos We think about that a lot, um, we, Chachaptiste supports connectors, so, you know, you can talk to your, like, Google Docs or something, and we put a lot of effort into guardrails around what the agent can do with your Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
Klarna CEO: SaaS is Dead: Why Systems of Record Will Die in an Agentic World · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:00:57 Sebastian Siemiatkowski How can it be that Klanak historically had a customer relationship with Sephora, and we had information about that customer relationship in Slack, in Salesforce, in Google Docs, in Google Slack, kind of the same information over and over… 2 times in the scene
Debt Spiral or NEW Golden Age? Super Bowl Insider Trading, Booming Token Budgets, Ferrari's New EV
- ▶ 11:38 Jason Calacanis Uh, we give them a notion account, a slack account, and we give them a Google docs account.
Anthropic's Super Bowl Ad: Who Won & Lost? | Sierra Hits $150M ARR: Is Customer Support Too Crowded? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 4:09 Mike Cannon-Brookes But obviously you could argue, I don't know, Google Docs and Confluence are somewhat competitive.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 21:50 Sherwin Wu Another good example is, uh, um, we're doing performance reviews right now, and it's actually really easy to use ChatGPT with internal knowledge, hooked up to GitHub and like our Notion docs and Google docs.
a16z, Anish Acharya: Is SaaS Dead? Do Margins Still Matter? Why We Are Not in an AI Bubble? · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 15:07 Anish Acharya Word and Docs and Spreadsheet and all of these other products around that core primitive, does OpenAI have the sort of prioritization, the resources, and the ambition in that direction to build all the feature surface around the primitive?
Epstein Files, Is SaaS Dead?, Moltbook Panic, SpaceX xAI Merger, Trump's Fed Pick
- ▶ 23:11 Jason Calacanis So actually our SAS spend went up in the short to midterm because we opened up four more slack, you know, uh, enterprise versions, four more notion, uh, four more Google docs. 2 times in the scene
#2296 The $7 Million Vibe Coded App
- ▶ 30:56 Josh Mohrer Or it'll send an email, or you can share it to Google Docs or Notion.
⚡️ Prism: OpenAI's LaTeX "Cursor for Scientists" — Kevin Weil & Victor Powell, OpenAI for Science
- ▶ 0:53 Kevin Weil So if you're a scientist writing a paper, you're probably not using Google Docs because you need to, you have diagrams, you have equations, etc.
- ▶ 6:26 Kevin Weil This is a paper that he wrote on black holes, and so you see it over here, all the, all the, you know, you can imagine trying to write this in, like, Google Docs or something, it'd be impossible.
Coinbase CEO's Top 3 Crypto Trends for 2026 + More from Davos!
- ▶ 36:40 Brian Armstrong So it's like every Slack message, every Google doc, every Salesforce data confluence, you know, so now, um, this is all linked up in one, like the data is all aggregated and you can ask these agents. 3 times in the scene
I Spent $289 So AI Could Build My Business
- ▶ 7:17 Samuel Thompson Then all I did was take copy and paste all of these into a Google doc, uh,
Claude Code’s Shining Moment, ChatGPT for Healthcare, End Of Busywork?
- ▶ 21:38 Ranjan Roy And I'm going to make the bet here right now, every week, Alex and I have a collaborative Google doc that we paste links in and kind of copy and paste text into. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 49:55 Ranjan Roy I think going back to the beginning of this episode, maybe there's something beautiful about taking a link and pasting it into a Google doc.
How My App Hit $60K/Month in 2 Months
- ▶ 11:48 Lara Acosta You literally only have to create a Google document explaining something or a loom or something else that you already have.
How to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones | James Clear
- ▶ 53:38 James Clear I will go back through and take photos of each of those and highlight the photo, uh, on my iPhone and just copy and paste it into, uh, like an Evernote file or, you know, Google doc or wherever I'm storing that stuff at.
Where does consumer AI stand at the end of 2025?
- ▶ 13:17 Olivia Moore They're launching it within Google Docs and Gmail and other things.
One Year of MCP — with David Soria Parria and AAIF leads from OpenAI, Goose, Linux Foundation
- ▶ 1:14:22 Nick Cooper / Brad Google Docs or whatever, and I think that it kind of shows you how MCP goes beyond just, like, the bytecoding space.
Top 5 of 2025: #4: Alex Sacerdote
- ▶ 40:07 Alex Sacerdote Having the customers already in a digital surface area, you can inject AI into Google Docs.
#2289 Building companies using Zapier’s AI automations
- ▶ 49:43 Wade Foster Slack, or it's an email, or it's in a Google Doc, and so based on that, it knows how to adjust my writing style to fit that. 2 times in the scene
10 Years of Acquired (with Michael Lewis) · Acquired
- ▶ 39:18 David Rosenthal I think we only had a single Google doc that we worked out.
- ▶ 1:07:32 Ben Gilbert Google Docs and their original G Suite were so good.
AI Eats the World: Benedict Evans on the Next Platform Shift
- ▶ 23:52 Benedict Evans That's basically Oracle or Google Docs.
The Future of Email: Superhuman CTO on Your Inbox As the Real AI Agent (Not ChatGPT) — Loïc Houssier
- ▶ 47:11 Loïc Houssier Our, I would say, the users of Grammarly, Grammarly knows that you're in Google Doc. 2 times in the scene
Will AWS Buy Google’s TPUs, Remembering Claude The Gator, Ricursive Raises $35M | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 23:48 unnamed speaker In this week's episode of Nonsense, uh, Ignite VC, a fund we've never taken a meeting with or had any contact with whatsoever, uh, founded by Brian, who we've never met as soliciting investors via public Google Doc to invest in an SPV that… 2 times in the scene
How Amplitude Went From Skeptics to “All In” on AI · Y Combinator
- ▶ 26:58 Spencer Skates I think what the Notion guys, for example, are doing as a competitor to Google Docs is, is very exciting.
The $700 Billion AI Productivity Problem No One's Talking About
- ▶ 22:00 Russ Fraden We've all seen the joke about, you know, your project is due, it's due in an hour, you said you were caught up, and then you, oh, shit, I have to ask permission for this Google Doc, right?
- ▶ 25:49 Alex Rampell Or, you know, slacks that were sent or Google Docs that were edited.
20Sales: John McMahon on How to Hire, Train & Retain the Best Sales Reps | How Sales Changes in a World of AI | Sales Lessons from Snowflake and MongoDB | How to Create and Drive a Sales Process with Urgency
- ▶ 32:09 Harry Stebbings The prerequisites are a G doc of links, are an onboarding PDF.
How We Use 20+ AI Agents for Marketing & Go-to-Market with SaaStr's CEO and Chief AI Officer
- ▶ 17:10 Jason Lemkin Literally go into a Google doc, write five bullets of what you want a deck to be.
Google Pushes OpenAI, Bezos Returns, AI’s No. 1 Hit
- ▶ 23:15 Ranjan Roy Cause like, have you, do you ever use Gemini in docs or sheets?
⚡️ Building the AI Hardware Engineer with Matthias Wagner, Co-founder of Flux
- ▶ 8:15 Matthias Wagner It's like real-time collaborative as the Google Doc or Figma is, right?
How AI Will Disrupt India’s IT Services Industry And Its 1.5M Engineers/Year | Bhaskar Ghosh, 8VC
- ▶ 1:02:38 Bhaskar Ghosh Handwritten document data, pdfs, google docs.
Google Gemini 3 Reactions, Google Antigravity, Anthropic-Nvidia-Microsoft Deal | Diet TBPN
- ▶ 14:09 unnamed speaker Sort of able to start from scratch, and it still has, like, the sidebar panel, but it felt like it was both a code editor, but then it also kind of looked like a Google Doc in the sense that you could highlight sections and leave comments…
He Manages $100M in Ad Spend With a Trick Nobody Tried Yet
- ▶ 36:52 Seva Ustinov Like right now, 99% of people I know they would use the AI via chat GPT or just like integrated AI to like Google docs or notion or something.
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