Sam Schillace
6 statements across 1 episodes · 1 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Jan 11, 2024 by Sam Schillace · across every show →
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Jan 11, 2024
Schillace: Writely co-founders initially rejected building Google Docs in browsers
“When I had the idea for Rightly, like, my two co-founders, who were both deep domain experts in both app building and word processors, were like, the browser's never going to support this. It's a bad idea. Let's not do this.”
Jan 11, 2024
Schillace: Focus careers on effortless strengths rather than unpleasant grinding
“We tend to undervalue the things we're good at. We tend to think work has to be unpleasant. And so if something is easy and fun, we don't tend to think it's You know, very valuable. So I think lots of people like gravitate in this direction of like, let's go d…”
Jan 11, 2024 bullish
Schillace: In five years, software you cannot converse with will feel broken
“I think we're gonna feel the same way about intention and interactivity in our products very soon. Like, if I can't tell something what my intent is and have it configure itself in an intelligent way, have it converse with me, whether that's a device or a piec…”
Jan 11, 2024 negative
Schillace: Google executives wanted to kill Google Docs despite millions of users
“Like in the early days, like we had like, I don't know, a couple million users, five million users. And there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop. And like, we shouldn't be doing it.”
Jan 11, 2024
Jan 11, 2024
Schillace: Writely initially let users edit documents without an account or email
“When we did rightly at the beginning, we didn't even ask for an email address because it was such a novel thing. We didn't want any friction at all in the onboarding process. So you could just come in and make a document and start using it without telling us a…”