I spent 8 years building Google Sheets. Now I think apps are on their way out
- May 15
- 1 min read
FORTUNE — Recently, my team built a working clone of Google Sheets in a few days. It’s not as good as the real thing, but at the current pace of AI, it could be soon enough to matter.
I spent nearly eight years at Google as principal engineer for the Docs suite, growing Sheets from a five-person experiment to hundreds of millions of users.
Building it took years, dozens of exceptionally talented engineers, and the kind of resources that were only available to the world’s biggest companies. Watching a small team spin up something functionally comparable in less than a week was, to put it mildly, clarifying.
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