The Build
September 4, 2026
McKinsey finds a third of companies now build software instead of buying it; Sundar points out Featherweight sells software; Preston cancels every vendor anyway; Gus rebuilt the expense tool on Saturday in his pyjamas and Sundar admits it's better; Preston wants to sell it; Gus: 'Our customers did that too. To us.'
Transcript
- Panel 1
- Preston: McKinsey says a third of companies now build software instead of buying it.
- Sundar: We sell software.
- Panel 2
- Preston: Then we join them. We stop buying. Cancel every vendor.
- Sundar: Who builds them?
- Panel 3
- Gus: Did the expense tool on Saturday. In my pyjamas.
- Sundar: It's better than the old one.
- Panel 4
- Preston: Brilliant. Then we sell it.
- Gus: Our customers did that too. To us.
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