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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google Docs comes up
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.
How to build a company you’ll run forever | Zack Kanter (Founder and CEO of Stedi)
- ▶ 1:16:29 Zack Kanter A decision record follows a template, and it says, um, scope, context, so scope of what team it applies to, you know, context of the background of it, decision, which is the actual, uh, meat of the net of what's being decided, action…
From Chrome extension to $5B platform | Postman’s journey | Abhinav Asthana (Co-founder & CEO)
- ▶ 23:44 Abhinav Asthana If you're familiar with something like notion or Google docs, it has an abstraction for just, just a literal doc there, but that's not good enough when you're dealing with technical abstractions like APIs.
From reluctant founder to $2B valuation: The story of Persona | Rick Song (Co-founder and CEO)
Developing technical taste: A guide for next-gen engineers | Sam Schillace (Microsoft, Google Docs)
- ▶ 1:16 Brett Berson Known as the man behind Google Docs, he has quite literally changed the way teams work together. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:23 Sam Schillace With gdocs for sure when we did rightly originally and like JavaScript was there, but it was buggy and not standardized and there weren't any frameworks and there weren't any tools and the cloud didn't really exist. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:19 Sam Schillace I mean, there's like more than a billion people use gdocs today.
- ▶ 14:30 Sam Schillace I'm like, you could point at gdocs maybe as an example of this, like, that was three or four years to take it from the initial idea to the more or less final form. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:07 Brett Berson In the case of Google Docs, the idea was this in the cloud collaborative editor.
- ▶ 19:32 Sam Schillace 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.
- ▶ 20:57 Brett Berson It's, it sounds like the Google Docs story is really like the classic concept of disruptive innovation, where you start with a vastly simpler product. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:52 Brett Berson In the case of Google Docs versus Office, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 43:30 Sam Schillace We used to get this criticism of, of Google Docs and the cloud.
- ▶ 1:04:54 Sam Schillace It's 18 years now since we did Google Docs. 3 times in the scene
Essential lessons for building and scaling DevTools | Dennis Pilarinos (Unblocked, Buddybuild)
- ▶ 26:30 Dennis Pilarinos They have it in Notion and Jira and Google Docs and linear and all the tools, these kind of code adjacent systems.
The secret lever Replit pulled to scale ahead of its competition | Amjad Masad (Co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 4:01 Amjad Masad Google Doc had just come out and wow, you could like share, you could share a document and you could like be in the same document together.
Inside Figma’s early days: How to build a world-class sales org | Kyle Parrish (VP of Sales)
- ▶ 58:03 Kyle Parrish If you've used any Google box or collaboration tool of our era, it felt pretty native.
The Bard blueprint | Creating value, shipping fast, and advancing AI | Jack Krawczyk (Google)
- ▶ 4:45 Jack Krawczyk And that's where you see language models inside of Google starting to manifest inside of products like Gmail and Google Docs, um, through a product that we call Duet AI. 2 times in the scene
How Vercel found extreme product-market fit by focusing on simplification | Guillermo Rauch (CEO)
- ▶ 12:35 Guillermo Rauch It's very similar to what Google docs did for word processing, similar to what Figma did for design.
The Zero to One B2B marketing playbook | Alex Kracov (Lattice, Dock)
- ▶ 19:49 Alex Kracov Think of Google Docs and Asana and ClickUp and so on and so forth, and try and use those to work with customers.