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About Collaborative Editing

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The founders planned a Hawaii trip when they reached 10,000 users, but growth happened so fast they had to scramble before Google acquired their product.

This episode traces the 35-year journey of collaborative editing technology from Douglas Engelbart's 1968 demo to mainstream tools like Google Docs. It follows the story of how programmers Steve Newman and Steve Shillis, along with software engineer Claudia Carpenter, developed Rightly in a Silicon Valley attic, which Google acquired in 2006 to create Google Docs.

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