Ben Gilbert: belief

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…As you know well. Did you stuff all 100% of those features into office for iPad? No. It's fun, we got to rethink the lightweight productivity we called it. Which is super fun. In low-end disruption, you get this new person that comes along, Google in this case, with Google Docs. Everything is a total toy. If doesn't have any other features that the enterprise need. They're giving it away for free. At the end of the day, there are so many people that look at that real time collaboration available on the web, cloud storage as like, "Wait. This is way more important to me than all those old things that colloquially everyone believed were necessary. I think the difference of where we're sitting today from a few years ago is I don't think it fulfilled its low-end disruption promise of unseating the incumbent. I was all braced and ready for Office to become less relevant and Google Docs to be the future, and them to slowly add on the rich feature that people would call the new incumbent. Let me ask you, I'm curious. You guys started Pioneer Square Labs in 2015.…

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