I’m interested in remote working, comms software, and the rise of enabling software - I’ve kept up with what would be considered incumbents now like Slack, Zapier and I was an early user of Loom. H/T reading Pioneer’s DC Gross - I discovered many more:
“… remote is in vogue and founders are rushing to build all parts of the distributed startup supply chain: Terminal helps generate remote teams, Tandem and There attempt to create a remote “office”, and Loom helps teams share their work over video.
Fueled by this trend, collaboration products continue to be popular. Notion is increasingly the wiki of choice for teams [me: Notion also tries to replace AirTable, which is itself a relative newcomer; as well as Trello and other flow apps] . Coda and Threads are building new hybrid variants of Google Docs, bringing the best of Slack and documents together. Figma remains an ever-popular multiplayer Photoshop [Me: it’s more a of a collaborative design UI than Photoshop to mny mind, but still pretty amazing]
Parts of the stack are owned by incumbents (Slack, Hangouts, Zoom). I’m not certain their position is infinitely stable. Zoom, for example, has a fantastic “molecule moat”: the IP is hard to create. But there’s no tax on switching. It’s just a link you share over Slack. You could imagine a new Zoom getting adopted very quickly if it was better…”
Pioneer run a grants programme/competition much bigger than my own.