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When Sam Schillace, Steve Newman, and Claudia Carpenter built Writely—their browser-based word processor, which became the basis for Google Docs—they saw a future that most of us didn’t yet appreciate. It’s been 20 years since Sam, Steve, and Claudia launched the Writely beta. To celebrate that achievement, they joined Tim to reflect on the success of their revolutionary product and discuss what it might teach us about the current moment.

Sam, Steve, and Claudia solved a problem people had been complaining about for years (version control in shared docs), and did so by putting together available technology in a new way where suddenly everything just clicked. (They also did it quite quickly—as Steve pointed out, it was only a year from Writerly’s inception to its acquisition.) They shared some of that history with Tim, with Sam explaining why fast experimentation and “learning by doing” was so valuable to their project—and remains so in the AI era.

Watch the full conversation for their takes on tackling the hard problem of collaboration (which is bigger and more human than a single tool can account for), and what AI might make possible that we couldn’t do before; designing paradigm-shifting products that are still easy to use, and why product designers should always keep laziness top of mind; the new economics of AI software development; why current AI products may be the equivalent of CD-ROMS; and much more.

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