Two Google alums just raised $60M to rethink documents –

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But two MIT graduates, coming in from Microsoft and Google, have built up a team that for the past three years has quietly been trying to rethink how we approach documents. From there, it kind of spins off in a different direction to allow a lot of flexible collaboration and UI elements and new ways to organize data that you might find across different platforms like spreadsheets or documents. Mehrotra said the team built up a new kind of programming language for it as a refinement of the tools you’d find in Google Sheets or Office 365. At the end of the day, it’s normally the user base that figures out the killer use case for an app — which might be completely perpendicular from what the company originally anticipated. Dropbox Paper is probably one of the biggest and more radical attempts at trying to figure out how to approach the whole “blank slate on the internet.”Mehrotra argues that products out there still rely on the same “metaphors” that led to the construction of the original document services.

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