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11 Jan 2024

In the early days, we had, I don't know, a couple of million users, five million users, and there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop and we shouldn't be doing it.

“In the early days, we had, I don't know, a couple of million users, five million users, and there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop and we shouldn't be doing it.”

Speaker: Sam Schillace
Episode: How to be more innovative | Sam Schillace (Microsoft deputy CTO, creator of Google Docs)
Publisher: Lenny's Podcast

What Sam said.

In the early days, we had, I don't know, a couple of million users, five million users, and there were still executives at Google telling me that it was a stupid idea and that it should stop and we shouldn't be doing it.