David Pierce

One of my most closely held theories is that no product can survive a terrible name. You can maybe turn a meh name into a great one — Google, Yelp, Apple — but if you name your company Quibi or Go90, it’s over before it starts. And according to some early Slack employees, the team was this close to picking a real stinker:

The best thing about Google’s Gemini model is the way it works with your Google stuff. So this is no surprise: Gemini is being built right into Workspace. The Gemini Enterprise plan costs $30 a month, and Gemini Business, with slightly fewer generative features, is $20 a month. (You can always pony up $20 a month for the Google One package with Gemini, too.) Bye-bye Duet AI, it’s just Gemini all the way down.

Slide decks: good, useful, necessary in business! Also a scourge against humanity that may exist only for the purpose of bringing unending misery to those who are forced to make them all the time.