He sees Quip doing more with its developer platform with new products. “We expand the product in three axes: new types of content (e.g., spreadsheets), new communication features, and new IT deployment options (i.e., complex deployment options for large enterprises),” he wrote. Taylor expects Quip to evolve on a few fronts. And that’s exciting for end users to think about. But that’s not necessarily a bad thing - you can think of it as an opportunity for Quip to experiment. Quip is hardly as popular - more than 30,000 companies use it, although it’s unclear how many are paying and how many end users that includes.
“Not zero sum (i.e., many people use multiple devices),” wrote Taylor, who is a former chief technology officer at Facebook and a cocreator of Google Maps.įor Quip, Office is not the biggest competitor. Now, Taylor told me, Quip is 60 percent desktop, 40 percent phone, and 12 percent tablet. This past July, it was about equal across mobile and desktop - and that’s when Quip came out with native desktop applications for Mac and Windows. In January 2014, 80 percent of Quip’s usage happened on mobile, and 20 percent on desktop on the web. Ironically, Quip’s use on desktop has grown, going against the trend at Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, and Pinterest. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella always seems to be talking about helping people succeed in the mobile-first and cloud-first world, and Microsoft Office doesn’t look half bad on mobile these days, but Quip was designed to work well on mobile devices - and as a cloud service, of course - from the beginning. We want to reach more companies and different companies, i.e., go up market to larger enterprises,” Taylor told me in a chat in the Quip app. “We believe in our business model - we see companies grow from a small team to fully engaged at the whole company. Bret Taylor, a cofounder of Quip and its chief executive, simply wants to invest in growth at a time when conditions for raising money are favorable.
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