Acquired

Episode 9: Writely (Google Docs)

Mar 29, 2016

48:50

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Highlights

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Episode notes

The History of Google's Acquisitions

01:27

Who has the most at stake in the battle between companies

01:13

Is Google Scaling a Biggest Business?

01:43

Is Microsop a Productivity Company?

02:32

Introduction

2min

Google Docks and Spread Sheets

2min

The Google Acquisition of Microsopt Office Sk Productivity

2min

Google's Acquisition of Drop Box

2min

The Battle Ground or Productivity Aps

3min

Do Google Want to Be When It Grows Up?

4min

What Is the Productivity on the Web?

3min

Amazon, Google Cloud Platform

3min

Is Amazon Email a Good Idea?

2min

10.

The Amazon Tax and Google Docks in the Enterprise

3min

11.

Is Microsop a Productivity Company?

3min

12.

How Much Is Productivity on Your Mind?

2min

13.

Drop Box or Microsop?

2min

14.

Google Aps for Business

2min

15.

Is Google Scaling a Biggest Business?

2min

16.

The Carve Out

4min

17.

The Best Non Fiction Book of the Week

3min

Ben and David continue the cloud productivity saga with Google Docs. They examine the suite of acquisitions made by Google with a focus on Writely in 2006. They tackle:

The nuts and bolts of the Upstartle (company behind Writely) acquisition, founded by Sam Schillace, Steve Newman and Claudia Carpenter.
SaaS offerings in cloud productivity today.
Was this a good idea for Google?
Google's future bets.
A new section: The Carve Out!

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