Josh Miller

My wife works in the art world for a 76-year-old artist in Flagstaff, Arizona. And I was noticing that she never left Chrome. She was on this high-powered MacBook Air and never left the confines of Chrome. And so the original observation of the browser company was actually our operating systems in 2019 then and definitely in 2024 today are actually our web browsers for laptop people.

You're sitting in applications in a browser. Your files are now URLs too. And so the kind of founding insight of the company was, wait a minute, browsers were designed for the information highway. They were designed when the web was a publishing platform. That has changed. Browsers have not. Why is that? Spoiler alert, money. Can we make your quality of life on the internet better?

You're sitting in applications in a browser. Your files are now URLs too. And so the kind of founding insight of the company was, wait a minute, browsers were designed for the information highway. They were designed when the web was a publishing platform. That has changed. Browsers have not. Why is that? Spoiler alert, money. Can we make your quality of life on the internet better?

You're sitting in applications in a browser. Your files are now URLs too. And so the kind of founding insight of the company was, wait a minute, browsers were designed for the information highway. They were designed when the web was a publishing platform. That has changed. Browsers have not. Why is that? Spoiler alert, money. Can we make your quality of life on the internet better?

So you are correct in that relative to the origins of the web and the origins of browsers, people are not spending as much time with content as they are with opening their browser and doing their work.

So you are correct in that relative to the origins of the web and the origins of browsers, people are not spending as much time with content as they are with opening their browser and doing their work.

So you are correct in that relative to the origins of the web and the origins of browsers, people are not spending as much time with content as they are with opening their browser and doing their work.

Yeah, it's a great question. And I actually think this is where Google deserves a lot of credit. I think if there's one thing Chrome and the Chromium team specifically has done a fantastic job of is building an operating system or an application platform that developers love, generally speaking, and they make it more and more powerful. And in fact, you had Dylan Field on this podcast.

Yeah, it's a great question. And I actually think this is where Google deserves a lot of credit. I think if there's one thing Chrome and the Chromium team specifically has done a fantastic job of is building an operating system or an application platform that developers love, generally speaking, and they make it more and more powerful. And in fact, you had Dylan Field on this podcast.

Yeah, it's a great question. And I actually think this is where Google deserves a lot of credit. I think if there's one thing Chrome and the Chromium team specifically has done a fantastic job of is building an operating system or an application platform that developers love, generally speaking, and they make it more and more powerful. And in fact, you had Dylan Field on this podcast.

Figma would not exist if it weren't for Google and Chrome and Chromium making the web fantastic for application platforms. What we're focused on is the individual and the person at the other end. So what we think about is

Figma would not exist if it weren't for Google and Chrome and Chromium making the web fantastic for application platforms. What we're focused on is the individual and the person at the other end. So what we think about is

Figma would not exist if it weren't for Google and Chrome and Chromium making the web fantastic for application platforms. What we're focused on is the individual and the person at the other end. So what we think about is

The focus on developers and the focus on publishers, as Google describes them, has left the individual, you know, Tuesday at 2 p.m., lacking a lot of powerful tools to make them better and faster. So, of course, we have integrations with different third-party application developers. I would love if we could offer stuff that makes them love Arc more.

The focus on developers and the focus on publishers, as Google describes them, has left the individual, you know, Tuesday at 2 p.m., lacking a lot of powerful tools to make them better and faster. So, of course, we have integrations with different third-party application developers. I would love if we could offer stuff that makes them love Arc more.

The focus on developers and the focus on publishers, as Google describes them, has left the individual, you know, Tuesday at 2 p.m., lacking a lot of powerful tools to make them better and faster. So, of course, we have integrations with different third-party application developers. I would love if we could offer stuff that makes them love Arc more.

But, in fact, we think that what was missing was looking at my wife using her laptop on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Wait. That's what she's doing. Like, we can do better. Computers can do more than that. So that's the orientation we take to our work.

But, in fact, we think that what was missing was looking at my wife using her laptop on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Wait. That's what she's doing. Like, we can do better. Computers can do more than that. So that's the orientation we take to our work.

But, in fact, we think that what was missing was looking at my wife using her laptop on Tuesday at 2 p.m. Wait. That's what she's doing. Like, we can do better. Computers can do more than that. So that's the orientation we take to our work.

To be honest, it was an intentional decision, but it was a little decision. And for better and worse, the theme of my answers in this podcast will probably be we come back to the individual at 2 p.m. on a Tuesday.