Google Ceo Adds A New Calendar Feature At Stripe Co-founder’s Request

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12:35 PM PDT · August 13, 2025

Talk astir customer service. On Wednesday, Google CEO Sundar Pichai posted connected X about Google Calendar’s caller characteristic to copy events — an summation that was specifically requested by Stripe co-founder John Collison past month, besides via an X post.

On July 5, Collison asked if Google Calendar users could get a Ctrl-click action that would let them to easy copy events, akin to nan characteristic that galore autochthonal almanac applications already have. Collison tagged Pichai successful his station astatine nan time.

While users often tag companies and CEOs pinch online feedback and complaints, you cognize you’ve made it erstwhile nan CEO not only replies to you, but besides implements nan alteration you’ve asked for.

That’s nan lawsuit for Collison, astatine least.

Wrote Pichai, “This characteristic is now unrecorded for everyone connected Google Calendar connected nan web — acknowledgment for nan suggestion!”

Naturally, immoderate X users began to flick nosy astatine Collison’s seeming power by asking him to thief pinch their ain circumstantial concerns, too.

Joked Box CEO Aaron Levie, for example, referring to nan notoriously congested road that runs done Silicon Valley, wherever Waymo’s self-driving cars presently person limited availability, “John, tin you inquire Waymo to activity connected El Camino done nan peninsula? Thanks!”

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