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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Google Docs comes up
AI’s third era: the rise of persistent AI coworkers | Tara Seshan (OpenAI’s product lead)
- ▶ 19:26 Tara Seshan Just like a colleague who you hire, who you like lock into a room, never give them access to like Google docs and Slack and the company database would not be that useful to you.
OpenAI’s head of platform engineering on the next 12-24 months of AI | Sherwin Wu
- ▶ 21:50 Sherwin Wu Another good example is, uh, um, we're doing performance reviews right now, and it's actually really easy to use ChatGPT with internal knowledge, hooked up to GitHub and like our Notion docs and Google docs.
“Dumbest idea I’ve heard” to $100M ARR: Inside the rise of Gamma | Grant Lee (co-founder)
Why experts writing AI evals is creating the fastest-growing companies in history | Brendan Foody
- ▶ 3:38 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- ▶ 4:21 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Inside ChatGPT: The fastest growing product in history | Nick Turley (OpenAI)
- ▶ 36:01 Nick Turley I love being in, you know, uh, Google Docs.
Brian Chesky's secret mentor who scaled Airbnb (after dying 9 times & building a hotel empire)
- ▶ 37:24 Chip Conley I'd never used a Google doc back then when I joined Airbnb.
Naming expert shares process for creating billion-dollar brands: Vercel, Azure, Windsurf, Sonos
- ▶ 3:04 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
- ▶ 1:01:49 Lenny Rachitsky So you have this diamond and then the idea is just sit and put names down in a Google doc, let's say.
How to build a team that can “take a punch” | Hilary Gridley (Head of Core Product, Whoop)
- ▶ 2:41 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Unconventional product lessons from Binance, N26, Google, more | Mayur Kamat (CPO at N26)
- ▶ 2:51 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
How Palantir built the ultimate founder factory | Nabeel S. Qureshi (founder, writer, ex-Palantir)
- ▶ 3:24 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
- ▶ 1:06:46 Nabeel S. Qureshi I think the failure mode that they were very, very averse to in, in traditional PMs was this kind of Google Docs syndrome of like, okay, I'm going to write my product requirement documents and I'm going to kind of manage it in this like…
Everyone’s an engineer now: Inside v0’s mission to create 100 million builders | Guillermo Rauch
- ▶ 3:11 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Become a better communicator: Specific frameworks to improve your clarity, influence, and impact
- ▶ 2:55 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
A better way to plan, build, and ship products | Ryan Singer (creator of “Shape Up")
- ▶ 2:51 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Identify your bullseye customer in one day | Michael Margolis (UX Research Partner at GV)
- ▶ 1:09:53 Michael Margolis So they're in a Google doc or notion or doc or whatever you want collaboratively doing that.
Behind the product: Replit | Amjad Masad (co-founder and CEO)
- ▶ 4:59 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Building Wiz: the fastest-growing startup in history | Raaz Herzberg (CMO and VP Product Strategy)
- ▶ 4:49 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Just evil enough: Subversive marketing strategies for startups | Alistair Croll
- ▶ 4:34 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Rituals of Great Decision-Making | Lenny & Friends Summit 2024
- ▶ 9:53 Shishir Mehrotra Rightly was a predecessor to Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
4 questions Shreyas wishes he’d asked himself sooner | Former PM leader at Stripe, Twitter, Google
- ▶ 3:47 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Behind the product: NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)
- ▶ 18:38 Raiza Martin And maybe, you know, the last thing you had there was like your resume or something, but imagine you click that.
Thinking like a gardener, slime mold, the adjacent possible: Product advice from Alex Komoroske
- ▶ 2:30 Alex Komoroske It's just one Google doc. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:16 Alex Komoroske I put into Google doc and while the kids are napping on the weekends, I just kind of go through them and try to distill them a little bit more, um, uh, in a more long-term format.
How embracing your emotions will accelerate your career | Joe Hudson (Art of Accomplishment)
- ▶ 5:56 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
5 essential questions to craft a winning strategy | Roger Martin (author, advisor, speaker)
- ▶ 6:20 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Building product at Stripe: craft, metrics, and customer obsession | Jeff Weinstein (Product lead)
- ▶ 1:58:27 Jeff Weinstein Imagine life without Google Docs, uh, and where you'd have to hire an IT person to run your IT backend, uh, on, on employee three, you'd have an IT person or imagine the world without AWS for EC two or S three or any of these cloud…
Dylan Field live at Figma's Config: Intuition, simplicity, and the future of design
- ▶ 4:54 Lenny Rachitsky To power Google Docs and YouTube.
Hard-won lessons building 0 to 1 inside Atlassian | Tanguy Crusson (Head of Jira Product Discovery)
- ▶ 6:22 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Inside Canva: Coaches not managers, giving away your Legos, and embracing AI | Cameron Adams
- ▶ 8:26 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Be fundamentally different, not incrementally better | Jag Duggal (Nubank, Facebook, Google)
- ▶ 2:40 Lenny Rachitsky Warrant's product is based on a groundbreaking authorization system called Zanzibar, which was originally designed for Google to power Google Docs and YouTube.
Crafting a compelling product vision | Ebi Atawodi (YouTube, Netflix, Uber)
- ▶ 32:56 Ebi Atawodi So in my org right now, you know, I've got, uh, uh, quite a number of PMs and for each of those PMs in this living Google doc, it's like go slash studio problems.
The ultimate guide to product operations | Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
- ▶ 18:19 Melissa Perri In our organization systems, like whether it's in Salesforce, whether it's in support tickets, in somebody's Google Doc, you know, of their customer interviews that they've been doing.
Mastering product strategy and growing as a PM | Maggie Crowley (Toast, Drift, TripAdvisor)
- ▶ 36:02 Maggie Crowley And I started with like, okay, and not fancy. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 1:13:49 Maggie Crowley And then I go into Google Docs and I actually make the slide.
What AI means for your product strategy | Paul Adams (CPO of Intercom)
- ▶ 37:17 Paul Adams I worked on mobile Gmail, mobile docs, and it was like the mobile team. 2 times in the scene
What sets great teams apart | Lane Shackleton (CPO of Coda)
- ▶ 1:14:22 Lane Shackleton One was, uh, Google bought this company called rightly that became Google docs.
Becoming evidence-guided | Itamar Gilad (Gmail, YouTube, Microsoft)
- ▶ 7:56 Itamar Gilad It was a division, the size of Android and docs and.
An inside look at Figma’s unique GTM motion | Claire Butler (first GTM hire)
- ▶ 10:57 Claire Butler Like, oh yeah, I use Google Docs.
- ▶ 1:20:32 Claire Butler I mean, like, if you're like, oh, Claire, you have to move from paper, Dropbox paper to Google Docs, they'd be like, ah, fine, right?
The ultimate guide to A/B testing | Ronny Kohavi (Airbnb, Microsoft, Amazon)
- ▶ 1:19:53 Ronny Kohavi Now it's all, you know, based on Word or Google Docs where people comment.
The science of product, big bets, and how AI is impacting the future of music | Gustav Söderström
- ▶ 9:36 Gustav Söderström And, uh, because I, I love storytelling more than Google docs, I decided to do an internal podcast.
An inside look at how Miro builds product | Varun Parmar (CPO of Miro)
- ▶ 56:37 Varun Parmar Having said that, we're actually a big fan of, you know, tools like, you know, Google Docs as well as Coda, you know, that allows us to track RKRs in a, in a pretty effective way.
Thinking beyond frameworks | Casey Winters (Pinterest, Eventbrite, Airbnb, Tinder, Reddit, Grubhub)
- ▶ 27:32 Casey Winters There was something on Google docs that I needed to figure out how to do.
Navigating comms and PR | Lulu Cheng Meservey (Substack, Activision Blizzard)
- ▶ 25:57 Lulu Cheng Meservey You take out your one page Google doc. 3 times in the scene
The ultimate guide to OKRs | Christina Wodtke (Stanford)
- ▶ 1:08:08 Christina Wodtke So having the Google suite and being able to have free slides, free docs, everything interconnected, drive, drive is sort of a gift, right?
Behind the scenes of Calendly’s rapid growth | Annie Pearl (CPO)
- ▶ 38:20 Lenny Rachitsky Or do you have like a Google doc with a template that you all use? 2 times in the scene
Lessons from Airtable’s unconventional growth strategy | Zoelle Egner
- ▶ 1:10:31 Zoelle Egner This is maybe spicy, but I actually love Google Docs. 2 times in the scene
Launching and growing a podcast | Chris Hutchins (All the Hacks, Wealthfront, Google)
- ▶ 28:34 Chris Hutchins Transcribes it to, let's call it like, 95% accuracy, and then you can edit the podcast like you would edit a Google Doc.
Founder-led sales | Pete Kazanjy (Founding Sales, Atrium)
- ▶ 47:14 Pete Kazanjy Did you take all the discovery questions that were in your brain and write them down into, you know, a Google doc or a notion page or what have you?
- ▶ 57:24 Pete Kazanjy So we actually have a written screen that we do with folks where it's just a Google doc that has like a dozen or so biographical questions that we allow people to answer. 2 times in the scene
How to be the best coach to product people | Petra Wille (Strong Product People)
- ▶ 19:44 Lenny Rachitsky Something that I did with my PMs that was so effective was every time we did a performance review, every six months we had a performance review, we put together a Google Doc with all of the things that we agree they should be working on,…
How to work through fear, give hard feedback, and doing layoffs with grace | Matt Mochary
- ▶ 17:56 Matt Mochary And it's all in Google docs.
The art of building legendary brands | Arielle Jackson (Google, Square, First Round Capital)
- ▶ 48:51 Lenny Rachitsky Execution wise, do you just kind of open up a Google doc and just start writing out ideas and brainstorm a little bit and just kind of keep refining with your team?
- ▶ 1:04:28 Arielle Jackson I think a lot of these answers come back to, like, if you're good with just opening a blank Google Doc and, like, writing down who you are, by all means, go for it.
The rituals of great teams | Shishir Mehrotra, Coda, YouTube, Microsoft
- ▶ 10:42 Shishir Mehrotra You know, the best way you learn about office or Google docs or so on is somebody shares one with you and you're like,
- ▶ 16:09 Shishir Mehrotra And it's not really a thing that you expect to do with Google Docs or Office or so on.
How to create a winning product strategy | Melissa Perri
- ▶ 30:39 Lenny Rachitsky Do you usually recommend people throw it into like a Google doc that everybody sits there and just confirms is happy? 2 times in the scene
How to unlock your product leadership skills | Ken Norton, Ex-Google
- ▶ 0:22 Lenny Rachitsky Over his fourteen-year career at Google, Ken Norton led product teams that build Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Maps, and even did a stint at Google Ventures.
- ▶ 5:11 Lenny Rachitsky And then you spent 14 years at Google working on products that folks may have heard of like Google docs and Google calendar and Google maps.