Google Sheets, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google Sheets comes up
Most people and companies aren't tool-builders
- ▶ 4:22 Benedict Evans A shared, a shared, um, a shared Google sheet with time codes in one column, and then comments in rows.
AI and SaaS
- ▶ 7:32 Benedict Evans And then you've got the middle case of Excel and Google sheets and email, where like we don't, haven't got a dedicated tool to do that thing.
- ▶ 21:00 Benedict Evans You're FedExing hard disks around the country, or maybe you've got a Google drive if the files aren't too big and you've got enough bandwidth, and then there's a Google sheet with time codes and comments and a whole bunch of email, and…
Figma, unbundling and $20bn of antitrust
- ▶ 5:11 Benedict Evans But if what you were actually doing was we need to share a table or we need to just have a hundred line model and I need to share it with 20 people to look at it, or, you know, I need to share an issue, a list of issues or a list of…
The Meta reality
- ▶ 23:10 Benedict Evans It's, you take something where you've got file shares and email detachments and a bunch of Google sheets listing workflows and emails and chats and a whole bunch of stuff spread all over the place, and you pull it into one piece of… 2 times in the scene
'Digital transformation' - beyond the silly slogan
- ▶ 5:52 Benedict Evans And it's not that you move from Excel to Google Sheets.
- ▶ 11:22 Benedict Evans There may be an Excel file, or there may be a Google Sheet document, but it's still a file, basically, and email, and links to email, and email threads, and email is a sort of, you've got this common substrate of email on the one hand, and…