Microsoft Word

“Send a word document. Do not send a PDF. Cause they're going to always red line. Always send a word document of your paper”

“No one wanted to pay an extra 20 bucks a month to talk to word. Okay. That was the great innovation. And even Microsoft couldn't get people to buy that. It doesn't work. No one wants a mediocre co-pilot.”

“Do people draft documents in Word in three, four, five years? Probably not.”

“Now the difference is you can't fork word and you can't take up all the real estate you want. You're basically conformed to this sort of right hand column. And then you got to get really creative. It's basically like designing a mobile app almost because that'…”

“Microsoft Word is a crazy product. It made it so that the moment you review anything in Microsoft Word, the only way you can review it is with other people in Microsoft Word. It's like this virus that penetrates everything, and it's not only penetrates it with…”

“Saying using chat GPT is going to become as common as somebody using Microsoft Word to write an essay.”

“That's how Microsoft beat word perfect because Microsoft word was the format you needed your coworkers to work in. If you were using a modern computer, because if they insisted on using word perfect, then you were stuck with word perfect. Whereas they had a mi…”

“The document formats are a huge network effect thing, even before the internet, even before organizations were networked and computers were networked outside of an organization. File formats. You're right. There's huge network economies to file formats.”

“And we learned that like the form of the feature, whether it's in word or not actually matters more than almost the product itself. Cause if you're building a web app for lawyers, sorry, you already lost the game.”

“I think the most fierce competition are going to be the incumbents, you know, like a lot of this technology is going to be built into the products that we know and love and use today. Right. So eventually like you know, even, even mid journey, I think they're …”

“It was Evernote to organize and to kind of track the research, and then I would move it into Google Docs to do the writing. And then once it was pretty close to final, I would move it into Word because Word has more advanced kind of features and formatting and…”

“So the way I do it is I send out actually a Word doc, not a Google doc, because that's obviously collaborative. I sent out a Word doc the night before. So it's all in isolation. No one sees what other people put. And then they have this kind of free space to r…”

“Google Docs never unseated office or word for financial analysts or lawyers who actually needed those very, very specific sets of features.”