Writely

“We started off, in, in C Sharp, which is little known, in, you know, our own, there's, like, pre-cloud, so we, like, had three file servers that we rented that were Windows machines in a data center in Texas with a sysadmin in the Philippines running them. So …”

“Technically, because I was an investor in that company, I sold both the company rightly and is 200 pounds of blood sausage to Google, which I think is a unique accomplishment.”

“When we migrated in to Google, we were very sneaky about it. And we like put the site into quote maintenance mode for eight hours on a Sunday where everything was just read only. And then we migrated all the data and moved everything and brought the new system…”

“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…”

“Because if we understood how hard the collaboration piece would have been first, Without understanding that value might have been like, eh, it's not worth it. Like, it's gonna be so hard to solve that problem. It's probably not a, you know, useful absence.”

“And like, the fact that you could collaborate on them was kind of an accident. Like, they're just like these things on the server. We hadn't built the thing. That would lock somebody out yet. So there was just like, here's a document, like you can edit these t…”