

^ "First Major Talent Exit After Facebook I.P.O", Bits Blog, The New York Times, June 15, 2012.^ "10 Breakthrough Technologies of 2014: Mobile Collaboration", MIT Technology Review.In 2015, Quip also added standalone chat rooms. Alongside all documents on Quip is a live updating history of edits made, as well as the ability to highlight portions of a document and add comments, which facilitates collaboration.
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The core of Quip provides word processing and spreadsheet functionality, accessible via the Web, an iOS app, and an Android app. In January 2017, Quip acquired the designer studio Unity & Variety. In July 2016, Salesforce announced the acquisition of Quip for an estimated total of $750 million. In 2015, Quip announced it had received a $30 million funding round led by Greylock Partners. The app was well-received, winning accolades as one of the best apps of the year from Time, The Next Web, and The Guardian. Roughly a year later, Quip was launched to the public as a mobile-centric tool for creating shared notes, lists, and documents. Taylor founded the company in 2012, after leaving his position at Facebook. Quip was founded by Bret Taylor, a co-creator of Google Maps, CEO of FriendFeed, and the former CTO of Facebook, along with Kevin Gibbs, who founded Google App Engine. It allows groups of people to create and edit documents and spreadsheets as a group, typically for business purposes. Quip is a collaborative productivity software suite for mobile and the Web.
