I still love the story of Writely, a product we wrote about way back in 2005 when TechCrunch was just a little tike.

The company got a lot of attention as one of the first Ajax-powered “online Word” products. An acquisition by Google came just a few months later, and Writely formed the foundation for what is now Google Docs.

Cofounder Sam Schillace is now an engineering director at Google. He… → Read More