Ben Gilbert: prediction

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…Absolutely. Founded by Sam Schillace, Claudia Carpenter and Steve Newman. They worked on it for a couple of years, it was in beta. They had a few thousand users. In March 2006, Google announces that they had acquired the company for an undisclosed amount, rumored in the $10 million range. What's interesting, they only hired one person over those to years. It was the three founders and one other Intuit employee, former Intuit employee, Jennifer Mazzon. They all joined Google and became PMs in Google Docs. What's interesting is that this was actually the second acquisition that Google had made in their online office productivity suite. The first was another company, a smaller company in New York called 2Web, 2Web Technologies that they'd actually acquired in 2005 that was working on Excel2Web. That was something that they brought into Google Labs, right? I think Google Labs created the first Google Spreadsheets before Google Docs even launched. Yes. This was all happening right around the same time. Google Spreadsheet launched in Labs in June 2006. Writely was acquired in March 2006. Shortly thereafter, in the beginning of 2007, Google Docs, based on Writely, was released publicly.…

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