Google Docs
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4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Nov 30, 2023 by Jack Krawczyk · said 31 times in 11 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
Mentions by year
brought up most by Sam Schillace (10), Brett Berson (10), Jack Krawczyk (2), Zack Kanter (1), Rick Song (1), Kyle Parrish (1), Jeremy Epling (1), Guillermo Rauch (1)
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2026 1 mention in 1 episode
2025 3 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
- every mention in 2025, scene by scene →
2024 23 mentions in 4 episodes 6 per episode
- Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- every mention in 2024, scene by scene →
2023 4 mentions in 3 episodes 1 per episode
- The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- every mention in 2023, scene by scene →
Everything said about Google Docs, oldest first
Nov 30, 2023 neutral
Embedding LLMs in existing products constrains open-ended user behavior
“The challenge when you put a language model into an existing product is there's going to be a natural constraint of that. If all of a sudden I'm in Google Docs, and I want to ask for vacation ideas that I want to explore, or I'm trying to figure out what are s…”
Jun 6, 2024 negative
Schillace: Google Docs has become a complicated, bloated version of Microsoft Office
“To be honest, like, I'm a little bit sad at the state of Gdocs these days because I think they're losing sight of the idea that, you know, they're kind of turning it into Office and like making it very complicated to use again. And I find lots of things broken…”
Jun 6, 2024 positive
Aug 28, 2025 negative
Asthana: Generic doc tools fail for APIs because syntax errors break execution
“If you're familiar with something like notion or Google docs, it has an abstraction for just a literal doc there, but that's not good enough when you're dealing with technical abstractions like APIs. APIs have a very specific language and one character is off.…”