“I connect it to my Google Calendar, I connected to my Slack, to my Gmail, to my Google Drive”
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“A lot of times on Google calendar, it's blocked.”
“we're not going to just build calendar which is like Google Calendar”
“it was a Google it was in the calendar it was like the calendar invite”
“products that folks may have heard of, like Google Docs and Google Calendar and Google Maps.”
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