How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years

In 2011, Cisco’s then-VP of engineering, Eric Yuan, tried to persuade his fellow executives that they urgently needed to improve WebEx, Cisco’s web-conferencing product. At that time, Cisco’s strategy for web conferencing didn’t involve improving existing products. Despite the fact that WebEx had been a costly acquisition, and the product was an important part of… (more) How Zoom Became the Best Web-Conferencing Product in the World in Less Than 10 Years

Dropbox Paper: Paper Tiger, or King of the Jungle?

On April 17, 2014, cloud-storage provider Dropbox announced it had acquired two companies. The first was photo-sharing service Loom. The second was collaborative document-editing tool Hackpad. Originally forked from the open-source Etherpad, Hackpad was a popular tool with a loyal following. As well as being a capable, lightweight document tool, Hackpad was also very popular… (more) Dropbox Paper: Paper Tiger, or King of the Jungle?

From 0 to 70% Market Share: How Google Chrome Ate the Internet

In 2008, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer (IE) web browser had almost 60% of the world’s browser market share. Mozilla’s Firefox was trailing in distant second place with roughly one-third of the market. Google’s brand new Chrome browser, which the search giant debuted on September 2, 2008, had just 0.3% market share. A decade later, Chrome effectively… (more) From 0 to 70% Market Share: How Google Chrome Ate the Internet

The 3 Evernote Alternatives You Should Switch to Right Now

When note-taking app Evernote launched back in 2004, it was a bold, innovative software product that promised to help us remember… well, everything. In 2004, Evernote was in the enviable position of being first-to-market. Evernote was among the very first software products to offer native apps for Windows, OS X, Android, and iOS. It was… (more) The 3 Evernote Alternatives You Should Switch to Right Now

From Engineers to Everybody: How Atlassian’s Confluence Conquered the Enterprise

Developing not one but two software products simultaneously just two years after establishing your company would probably sound like madness to most founders. That’s exactly what the Atlassian team did when they launched their wiki tool called Confluence back in 2004. Confluence not only beat virtually every other wiki tool to market but also adopted… (more) From Engineers to Everybody: How Atlassian’s Confluence Conquered the Enterprise

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Bryan Wise
Bryan Wise,
Former VP of IT at GitLab

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