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Co-Founder and CEO @coda_hq

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I am thrilled to announce the launch of Coda’s newest product: Coda Brain! It’s a turnkey AI platform, powered by Snowflake, that helps teams spend less time hunting for information and more time putting it to work. I like to call it “your team’s favorite know-it-all.” This

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1/ Time for another doc. This one is historical. YouTube’s hypergrowth was a rollercoaster, but we stayed grounded with a clear set of rituals. While it didn’t happen overnight, we gradually settled into the planning and meeting pattern you see in this diagram. A thread: 👇

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7/ What started as an email reply to Daniel, gradually turned into a few pages of prose and then grew. I’ve captured the latest version in a doc, which you can read and contribute to here:

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Rituals for hypergrowth: An inside look at how YouTube scaled

A peek inside how YouTube tackled the 2008 to 2014 hypergrowth years with a unique set of rituals for everything from strategic planning to effective meetings.

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1/ Over my career, I've had the chance to help onboard dozens of executives - either directly/indirectly in my own teams, or in advising others going through the transition. Short thread 👇

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One of the most challenging and valuable skills in the business world is the art of framing problems. We made up a word to capture a technique that we've found really valuable. Here's a writeup on "Eigenquestions". Feedback welcome!

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Eigenquestions: The Art of Framing Problems

A handbook for how to become an expert at framing problems.

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I was extremely saddened to hear of @SusanWojcicki ’s passing. It is an enormous loss for her family, and also for Google, and for the world. Susan was my first boss at Google. She taught me the Google Way, but also the Susan Way. Google was known for thinking big, Susan was

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4/ With those trends in mind, I base my exec onboarding process on 3 ideas: - Run the old administration. Clean break. Now you're in charge. - An intentional, documented, well executed 8-week learning plan. - A single starter project that is not critical path.

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I’m excited to share that Coda has entered a strategic partnership with @Snowflakedb , the world’s leading Data Cloud company, plus a large investment round in Coda led by Snowflake Ventures! Thrilled where this partnership is headed, and here’s a few reasons why. 🧵

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5/ I’ve turned that 8-week learning plan into a template. To get started, all you need to do is copy my doc.

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Executive Onboarding: Shishir's Tips & Best Practices

An 8-week learning plan.

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Exciting news at @coda_hq today 😀

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🎉 We just raised a Series C round of funding led by @mamoonha for @kleinerperkins . And we’re excited to show you what we’ll do with it. (A thread)

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Exciting update – today the team unveiled the vision for where we’re headed with AI in Coda. I’ve been using Coda AI internally for a while, it has fundamentally changed the way I use Coda. I believe it has the potential to change the future of productivity. A short thread 👇

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Such an exciting step. Finally able to open up Coda 1.0 so anyone can make docs as powerful as apps.

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New doc, who dis. We’re welcoming everyone into Coda 1.0 with the launch of our mobile app. Now you can create docs as powerful as apps. Thank you to the tens of thousands of beta users who used Coda and provided feedback. #aDocforMakers

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Exciting news today! We just raised a $100M Series D round led by @OTPPinfo . I’m impressed by how much the team has accomplished in the past year alone, and I’m eager to see what we will build next. P.S., we’re hiring ;)

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Jobs, explore our open positions - Coda

Calling collaboration-inclined job hunters - we're hiring! Explore our open positions and learn why Coda may be the best next chapter in your career.

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🎉 We just raised a $100 million round of Series D funding, led by @OTPPinfo — and we’re all-in on all-in-one docs. What exactly does that mean? Glad you asked. First and foremost, it means making docs even better for makers and their teams. (1/7)

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I'm curious: who colors the events on their calendar? And if you do, what do the colors mean?

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Huge kudos to the @coda_hq team for launching Coda AI into open Beta today. What a big milestone! A short story: Early on in the product’s development, I asked them for their one-liner to describe their vision of Coda AI. We often approach new features or launches by “starting

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Exciting news: starting today, Coda AI is available for all workspaces. Get started with your new work assistant: ✨

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Thanks @patrick_oshag for the great interview! Over the past decade, my views on bundling have changed 180 degrees. As my thinking changed, it reshaped how I think about markets, business models, and even product development. Here's the full writeup:

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Four Myths of Bundling

What everyone tends to get wrong about bundling

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My conversation with @shishirmehrotra on the art and science of the bundle: - casual fans, super fans, and non fans why churn matters more than usage - bundle myths (and corrections) - pricing (power) - the future of bundles I loved this episode

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Excited to unveil Coda 3.0 today after 2 years of hard work. Shiny new editor, an open packs system and marketplace, and 100+ other updates. Would love to know what you think!

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Big news: we’re pleased to introduce the all-new Coda 3.0 — the doc that brings it all together. With a brand new editor, an open Packs platform, and hundreds of your most requested updates, Coda 3.0 is ready for your team. Read more about Coda 3.0:

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This was a lot of fun to write. I get asked a lot about the journey from @Youtube to @coda_hq and I finally got a chance to put it into words :)

What Will Software Look Like Once Anyone Can Create It?

A former YouTube executive recalls people being mystified on why he joined a company best known as a platform for badly-produced cat videos. He foresaw a time when YouTube would disrupt online video,...

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@lennysan It completely transformed my meeting notes. Here's a made up example:

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It’s not a Wordle! These are my Inbox Zero scores for the month of January. 🟩 means “hit zero”. A 🧵...

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Coda has always been remote-friendly, but the past 2 years of remote work have cemented my beliefs that you don’t need headquarters—or even an office—to collaborate well. As our company rituals have evolved, and with >40% of the company fully remote, here’s what I’ve observed:

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Since we launched the @coda_hq #EverythingEvolves campaign, I keep getting pings about everyone’s favorite character (FWIW, mine is the Shady Lizard). Today, I have more good news: we’ve pulled a number of the characters together for a new doc-umentary! Watch it here: (1/?)

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I’m thrilled to announce that @coda_hq has acquired @platohq , the world’s largest community of software engineering leaders. For many years I have followed the growth of this community and admired their mission of spreading engineering excellence through mentorship. Fun fact:

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Have you ever wondered how much time we spend in meetings? Or which of us has the best technique for managing free time? Or wanted to take a hacksaw to a particularly ineffective meeting? Introducing . A thread👇🏾

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Team meeting audit: 3 tests for an effective Meeting OS (and 4 steps to fix it!)

Design your team's Meeting Operating System with this step-by-step guide.

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The Coda team just launched the Coda+FigJam widget which will eliminate copying and pasting from FigJam to a structured data tool. In a few clicks it brings your entire brainstorm into a Coda table! But as fun as the tool is, the backstory of how it was built is even more fun...

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5/ And a weekly cadence anchored our regular execution split into 4 meeting types: group information sharing, decision making forums, tag-ups, and 1:1s.

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4/ For strategic planning, we bucked the classic Google quarterly OKR system and shifted to a 6-month / 6-week process — 6-month strategic planning for aspirations, 6-week sprint planning for commitments.

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A few of you know that I coach my daughter's robotics team. They had a big day today - they took top prize in the Northern CA Championships! Here's a video of their winning run (10 pts short of the max):

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Excited to finally share what we've been working on!

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Our CEO @shishirmehrotra wrote about our 3-year origin story. Read all about it!

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Big announcement today: Coda 4.0 is here! Read more and let me know what you think...

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🚀 Big news: today we’re excited to launch Coda 4.0 – the all-in-one platform for businesses, powered by AI. You might be saying to yourself “Coda releases new features every day, what’s so special about Coda 4.0?” We’re glad you asked...

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@theryanking We do a version of this at @coda_hq as well with some small diffs. Main one is that ours are 50% recourse not 100%. Also, we give every employee 20% of their stock as FF (founder's preferred) - another trick often reserved just for founders.

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I've been a huge fan of @lennysan 's podcast and it was enormous fun to be interviewed by him! Wide ranging, fun conversation!

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✨ Here's my conversation with @shishirmehrotra , CEO of Coda, former head of product, eng, and design at YouTube, and 🤯 first-principles thinker. Learn about: ▫️ The rituals of great teams ▫️ Black loop and blue loops ▫️ Eigenquestions ▫️ How to create change Links below 👇

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Loved talking with @ReidHoffman on the new @MastersofScale about building new rituals with your team — and how @Coda_HQ can help build cohesion (and avoid groupthink!) on distributed teams. We also build a companion doc here:

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Why your company needs rituals: A Masters of Scale companion doc

Templates and insights from on the 8/18/20 episode of Masters of Scale.

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To scale, you need more than a good strategy – you need good rituals, the small, everyday steps that help your team turn strategy into action. @ReidHoffman talks ritual w/ @ShishirMehrotra of @coda_hq on our newest episode:

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Last day at Google. 6 of the best years of my life. Very excited about the next adventure!

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Exciting to see #GoogleIO Smart Canvas news today - lots of "all-in-one doc" enthusiasm, clearly aligned with a future we see at @coda_hq as well. Curious for thoughts - what’s the dream “all-in-one doc” for you?

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The meeting pundits are wrong. They push us to single-threaded meetings. One group, one agenda, one discussion at a time. This has a cascade of unforeseen side effects that can kill your team’s productivity. But they are wrong. Multi-threaded meetings are way better than

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6/ When I left YouTube in 2014, a number of other company leaders wanted to understand how YouTube worked. Spotify CEO/Co-Founder @eldsjal was the most encouraging — he suggested that I write a short summary of our key rituals so others may learn from them.

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It took some work to get this just right (and there's a bunch of followups coming) but I've been using this for quite awhile and it's a total game changer.

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🚨 Exciting news: your favorite tools can now be interactive pages in your Coda docs! Reduce tab switching by embedding @figma @MiroHQ @ModeAnalytics or even other @coda_hq pages into your favorite all-in-one doc. Try it today—all you need is a link.

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3/ And I’ve noticed 3 specific trends: - No one knows who you are... and they are going to be skeptical. - You have more to learn than you think. And no, you can't learn it later. - What the leader thinks is broken isn't what everyone else thinks is broken.

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4 years

Our kids made a super cool fitness game project that officially launched today: check it out (and upvote!) at

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5 months

So proud of my sister for being part of the team that were finalists for a Pulitzer this year! More below (including the story she wrote):

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Karishma Mehrotra

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Congrats to the entire team at the Washington Post for a Pulitizer finalist for our tech series about India. Especially my bureau mates: @gerryshih and @AnantGuptaAG . And our stellar editor: @AlanSipress .

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@sarahtavel Having worked on both extremes (YouTube=Video, Coda=text), I've found it actually easier to go the other way. The hardest part is generally insight. Once you've formed clear insight, you can talk about it forever :)

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Very excited to give a nice home for all those amazing published @coda_hq docs! Check out the launch below.

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🚀Welcome to a new home for your docs: A rebuilt Doc Gallery where you can explore—and share—what you've made. ✍️ Self-publish. 🔍 Discover docs. 📚 Create and curate your doc collection. Read more:

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Great interview by @sriramk on one of our generations most iconic entrepreneurs @eldsjal !

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NEW OBSERVER EFFECT 🚨: Thrilled to publish our interview with Daniel Ek, Founder/CEO of Spotify. In a wide conversation @eldsjal talks decisions, learning from people like Zuck/Beyoncé, being a dad, "algotorial" and much much more. Full interview👇

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@hnshah The ability to frame problems

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3/ We slowly constructed rituals that took us from “controlled chaos” to a well-aligned team that simultaneously ran a complex business and took on meaningful strategic initiatives.

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As a long time loyal @benthompson reader, it was really fun to do this interview with him. He's an excellent interviewer - this went through so much more ground than I imagined. Enjoy!

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5-12-2022 An Interview with Coda Founder (and Bundle Expert) Shishir Mehrotra

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Honored to be presenting at @figma Config again this year with my good friend @yuhkiyam ! After the great feedback on our talk last year, we’re eager to follow it up with the sequel. Join us in San Francisco or virtually from around the world:

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Important article from my sister

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India is in a "desperate" situation, Dr. Fauci told me over the phone yesterday. His prescription? Lockdown for a few weeks, form a crisis group, and get the immediate supplies. Then, rev up makeshift hospitals and the military. @IndianExpress

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Can’t wait to share what we’ve been working on here at Coda in partnership with @SnowflakeDB – something big is coming. Stay tuned!

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Just in time for @Snowflakedb ’s Data Cloud Summit, we’re giving you a first look at the future of Enterprise #AI , the next step in our partnership with Snowflake, and a brand-new product from Coda. Stay tuned to our Twitter/X tonight for a big announcement during the Data Cloud

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2/ The company was acquired early and had to adapt to being integrated into Google, a company well known for its rituals. While we borrowed many best practices, we also recognized that some of Google’s rituals didn’t quite fit.

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Love this piece from @ev . This is really close to why we shifted YouTube from being about videos to being about channels. @ev

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Toward a more relational Medium

Last week we announced Medium’s new mobile app and started rolling out the beta more widely. (If you have the current Medium app, look for…

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@lennysan @figma @clairetbutler I can confirm!

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In the midst of a strange and heart-breaking 2020, I'm really proud of what the @coda_hq team accomplished this year. Here's a great summary:

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This year, the future of work changed in an instant. We relied on docs more than ever—doubling our launch velocity to help our makers get the most out of Coda. We’re kicking off a month of reflection by sharing our year in review.

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Many know that I'm passionate about the rituals teams use to become successful. That's why I'm excited to join @yuhkiyam at @figma Config later this month to discuss the Rituals of Modern Product Teams. Any ritual in particular you'd like us to cover? Register for Config

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This year at Config, I’ll share the stage with @shishirmehrotra of @coda_hq . In our talk, Rituals of Modern Product Teams, we’ll share why building great teams starts by creating shared rituals. What’s your fave ritual? I might include it in the keynote!

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How are my pizza making skills?

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Great article by @ev . Shifting the YouTube metric to watch time was brutal but valuable transition for the company.

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Today's launch marks a significant milestone in our mission to power the maker generation. When anyone can build a business on Coda, there's no limit to what people can create. Whether you want to buy or sell Packs, check out the Gallery and let me know what you think!

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🚨 Big, big news: Coda's Pack marketplace is officially open for business. This launch opens new opportunities for both doc and Pack makers. 👉 Pack makers: Sell your Packs in our Gallery 👉 Doc makers: Trial & buy any Pack, regardless of plan The impact: 🧵 (1/7)

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Black Americans have faced injustice for a long time, and we must figure out how to help. From my reading and conversations, I’m using this as an opportunity to better educate myself about these important issues. And at Coda, we’re starting with the following actions:

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@productschool Move a team from ambiguity to clarity Move an idea from concept to product Move a market from problem to solution

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The whole @coda_hq team has been hard at work on bringing 2.0 to our makers (and their teams!). Packed full of the top requests from our community. Would love feedback!

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🚀 Big news! Today we launched Coda 2.0 - a #NewDocForTeams . Coda is now: 🧘‍♀️ Simpler ✨ Cleaner 🏃 Faster Coda 2.0 has paid plans (w/ a free tier!) plus: 📂 Workspaces/folders 🔄 Cross Doc 🔒 Locking 💻 @Firefox and @Safari support

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Microsoft's ownership of the "blinking cursor of choice" for 3+ decades has lessened in recent years with the "all-in-one doc" movement. Interesting to see them start from scratch with #MicrosoftLoop , clearly aligned with what we see at @coda_hq as well. Early impressions?

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@shubroski We have a fun prototype of this working in @coda_hq as well - coming soon!

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New ritual alert! I recently learned of an amazing decision making ritual from my friend @fidjissimo [Instacart CEO]. Instead of grading decisions, she cleverly grades her _assumptions_. Here’s her writeup:

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Big launch today at @coda_hq . This is one we've been working on for awhile and I've loved watching some of the amazing docs that users have built.

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Say hello to Packs Tables, the new building block with data sync. Pull in info from the apps you use every dayーlike Gmail and Jiraーand say goodbye to stale data. #codapacks

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Amazing interview from one of the best product leaders in the world: @lshackleton . Full of insight!

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Lenny Rachitsky

1 year

Lane Shackleton ( @lshackleton ) is Chief Product Officer at @Coda_hq , where he’s led the product and design team for over eight years. Lane started his career as an Alaskan climbing guide, then as a reviewer of AdWords ads, eventually becoming a product specialist at Google, a

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Shishir

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3 years

Since I first published my guide to distributed teams (), our team’s rituals continue to evolve as we expand and grow, and I’m curious to hear about yours. Which rituals have stuck with you these past two years, and which ones have you created?

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Shishir's Guide to Distributed Teams

Five lessons from a decade+ of running distributed teams

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2 years

There are 300 million buttons in @coda_hq docs. That's insane.

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Coda

2 years

Buttons in Coda docs have been incredibly popular since their launch in 2018—there are nearly 300 million in docs today! Buttons turn Coda docs into interactive apps that connect to the world. But did you know they almost never existed? 🧵

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3 years

@zachlloydtweets I remember well when @zachlloydtweets (one of the strongest engineers at Google) told me about his obsession with a new terminal. Always great to see such driven entrepreneurs getting to their first launch moment - congrats!!

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Shishir

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4 years

Amazing work from the @coda_hq brand team!

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Jeremy Olson

4 years

Doh. The @coda_hq brand team is on 🔥🔥🔥with this video that just dropped... You kinda owe it to yourselves to watch this one

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Shishir

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2 years

Thanks everyone for the amazing birthday wishes yesterday! One fun anecdote - we have a ritual at @coda_hq where we make "virtual cards" for special events. Here's what one of our design leads, @jerols , submitted for me. Lots of inside jokes, but I thought it was amazing. And

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3 years

This unlocks the most interesting productivity use cases, and the teams taking this leap do a few things well: 1. Measure goals, not work 2. Embrace asynchronous rituals 3. Focus synchronous time on building bonds, not producing work

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2 months

Have you ever wanted planning to be WOOOOOOOOOW? A few weeks back, @yuhkiyam and I gave a fun talk at @figma ’s Config about the rituals to unbreak the planning process, including going from just "WOW" to "WOOOOOOOOOW". Watch the video, read the script, and take a peek behind

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2 years

I encouraged the team to share where we’re headed early and start opening up the alpha process so makers can start building. We’re just at the beginning of AI in productivity, and we’d love your feedback along the way as we iterate.

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Coda AI, the work assistant your team deserves - Coda

Coda AI is the connected work assistant that knows your team—and can take action for you. Free for all Doc Makers. Discover what's possible with Coda AI.

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3 years

At @coda_hq , we’ve used rituals like Dory and Pulse as the default, async option. It means in many cases, we can reach consensus without needing a meeting, and it makes for a more inclusive culture. You can read more here:

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Two-way writeups: Coda’s secret to shipping fast

Three simple tips to drive results from written documents.

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Shishir

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3 years

Coda Block Party is on Wednesday! Our first one was in 2018, before we even shipped Coda 1.0. Really excited to bring the Coda community together for a great round of updates and talks from some amazing leaders. Registration link 👇🏾

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Coda

3 years

4️⃣ days till #BlockParty21 ! Our 4 featured speakers, @ariannahuff @nrmehta @rahulvohra and @AnnieDuke will be sharing their own rituals on the main stage at Block Party and will have templates for you to take and make your own. RSVP today:

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5 years

Product reviewed by @wirecutter . Achievement unlocked.

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When to Pony Up for Paid Software—and When You Don’t Need To

If you freelance or run a small business, pricey software like Quickbooks and Photoshop can seem like overkill, but great alternatives are available for free.

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Shishir

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4 years

Great launch today in partnership with the @productschool @mural and @coda_hq teams!

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Product School

4 years

Nobody wants to reinvent the wheel—that’s why we’ve partnered with #prodmgmt leaders, @coda_hq , and @MURAL to develop templates for the most common PM scenarios. From PRDs to creating User Flows and Product Launch Checklists, we've got you covered. 👇

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3 years

@adamnash If only you knew how many different color combinations I tried to arrive at these🌈🙂

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8 months

Time for another rituals thread! An OG classic: Dory/Pulse. As my fav ritual, it’s the most copied/adapted & the one I get asked about. I interviewed leaders at @zapier , @glean , @doordash , @okta , @coinbase , etc and compiled the 14 best variations of this powerful duo. A 🧵...

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2 years

Huge congrats to @zoink and the team at @figma ! As a small piece of trivia, @coda_hq was @figma 's first customer. Amazing to see how the platform evolved from then!

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Dylan Field

2 years

THREAD: This morning we’re announcing that @Figma has entered into an agreement to be acquired by @Adobe ! More information here: (1/9)

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5 years

Magical feature alert. So simple - paste any link into a doc (something everyone does dozens of times per day) and get a much richer result. It's a great example of how powerful underlying Coda building blocks can be brought to life in simple everyday experiences.

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Coda

5 years

For some Friday fun...we've made some changes to how links are presented in Coda. tl;dr - more options for how you display URLs you paste into Coda, from a plain ol' hyperlink to a full-fledged Packs connection. Read more about it 👉

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2 months

@lennysan I live by this gem from @destraynor

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Des Traynor

5 years

I built a workflow to enact this "calendar your emails" approach using @coda_hq and their packs feature. So easy & powerful. (and I've yet to really scratch the surface)

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3 months

Count me in the group of "I wish @lennysan would run a conference!"

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Lenny Rachitsky

3 months

Big news: Announcing the Lenny & Friends Summit ✨ I’ve heard from so many of you that you’re pining for a large yet intimate IRL gathering, and now feels like the right time. I’m excited to announce that I’m hosting a one-day in-person summit for senior product leaders, this

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5 years

Spotted on the 101 😀

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Kenny Mendes

5 years

Love this @coda_hq billboard! #marketing #ooh #startups

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2 years

Every meeting I’m in ends with a summary and clear next steps, but I no longer have to write them. Coda AI does the work now. I’m using this in customer calls, team meetings, and even with Zoom transcripts.

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5 months

Golden insight from @shreyas !

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Shreyas Doshi

5 months

✨ New resource: a PM Performance Evaluation template (along with a calibration meeting story) Throughout my 15+ years as a PM, I’ve consistently felt that ladder-based PM performance evaluations seem broken, but I couldn’t quite find the words to describe why. Early on in my

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4 years

The GOAT of recruiting is ready to teach.

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Kenny Mendes

4 years

1/ I’m creating a new cohort-based course with live classes to help recruiters, founders/CEOs, and hiring managers build & scale top-tier teams. Team-building is the #1 skill in startups. Become AMAZING at it. Applications are now open:

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6 years

In a whirlwind launch week for Coda, I got a chance to talk about the launch on Bloomberg TV with @htaneja . While the interview was a lot of fun, I found the comment from "KNO" to be hilarious :)

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Coda's New Document Platform Makes Its Public Debut

Feb.05 -- Coda Chief Executive Officer Shishir Mehrota and General Catalyst Partner Hemant Taneja discuss the company's new programmable document platform wi...

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4 years

Should be a good show!

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Sriram Krishnan - sriramk.eth

4 years

⏰ tomorrow for GTS, @aarthir and I have some amazing product leaders 💪 @aparnacd , VP Google and now CPO @RobinhoodApp ! 💪 @manikgupta - ex-CPO Uber, product head of Google Maps 💪 @shishirmehrotra - CEO, @coda_hq , ex-head of Youtube 💪 @stevesi - inventor of Clippy 😉

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3 years

@shivanisberry Love this. Start with asking the right question. We have a cute name for this called "eigenquestions":

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3 years

Proud dad moment:

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Burglary Busters: aspiring engineers tackle package theft with Bait Box

Los Altos teens Riya Mehrotra, Katie Byon and Alyssa Fang have developed a potentially groundbreaking device that could track porch pirates and report package theft directly to the police.

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4 years

@sriramk @shivani10 @aarthir @aparnacd @manikgupta @stevesi Fun examples / summary:

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Gamestorming: Design your meetings like you design your apps

This toolkit helps you lead better meetings using best practices for facilitating innovation in the business world.

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Shishir

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5 years

We had a pretty big 2019 at @coda_hq . Excited for 2020!

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The Coda Blog: Stories, insights, and the future of work

We have stories to tell you—about the features we build, our makers, our company, and our vision on the future of work. Explore stories, insights, and more.

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Shishir

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3 years

Thanks to the great team at @cheddar for the fun interview!

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Shishir

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4 years

So excited to get to work with @oheckmann again!

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Oliver Heckmann

4 years

Happy to announce that I’ve just joined @coda_hq as their Head of Engineering. I’m so grateful for the last 14 years at @google , where I got to work with world-class technical talent on world-changing products. Excited to see how we can change the world with docs.

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1 year

Newest AI release from @coda_hq !

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Coda

1 year

What if you could ask your doc questions? Well, now you can. Coda AI chat takes context from the page you're on or doc you’re in to give you the insights you need—right inside your doc. Rolling out to workspaces over the next few weeks!

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4 years

Everything @shreyas publishes is amazing, but I have a new personal favorite :)

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Shreyas Doshi

4 years

We all want super-smooth launches. Hence, introducing: A Coda template for Pre-mortems. No prior experience required. Just copy the doc & it will do all the heavy lifting for you. Thx to @bigal123 @erinbdame @shishirmehrotra @coda_hq for the collab.

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1 year

We're on at 2pm! Talk should be great, we've been working hard on it!

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Yuhki Yamashita

1 year

This year at Config, I’ll share the stage with @shishirmehrotra of @coda_hq . In our talk, Rituals of Modern Product Teams, we’ll share why building great teams starts by creating shared rituals. What’s your fave ritual? I might include it in the keynote!

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