Google Slides

“There's like a billion people that use PowerPoint and Google Slides every month, and they're not happy with it.”

“Well, everyone needs just a chat tool for sure. The engineers all need a tool like a cursor or cloud code or whatever. And it turns out the third use case that's bubbling up over and over is presentations. People are wasting all this time just like formatting …”

“If you think about who's buying the Google suite or the Microsoft Office suite, nobody's doing it by comparing the feature set of PowerPoint versus Google Slides. They're, instead, they're comparing Outlook versus Gmail, and maybe after that, like, Word versus…”

“The stat that I heard when we started the company was that PowerPoint and Google slides each have Something like five hundred million monthly active users. So there's like a billion people making presentations every month.”

“And the other tools I thought of that came to mind were there's keynote and Google slides, which are successful products, but to me, they're basically just PowerPoint clones for a different platform bolted into like sort of a suite.”

“What we do, and I've been doing it for the last, I don't know, decade or more, is having people within the design team share as a screenshot or a prototype of what they are working on in a shared deck, and so they add this to a slide in Google slide decks ever…”

“I remember Robbie Walker during one of our one of one of our Tuesday dinners said that they had, they didn't even implement the save button for, like, their online PowerPoint because they knew that none of their users would ever ask, like, hey, can I save this…”