"We've always had lots of remote people, and all of the real decisions happen informally," says Evernote CEO Phil Libin whose company has been testing a QB for three months at its Mountain View, California, headquarters. "The problem with videoconferencing is that it works well for prescheduled conferences but not for spur-of-the-moment casual conversations." Blackwell sums up his own videoconferencing woes that helped inspire him to create the bot: "It was such a common experience to be up on the screen and a group of people would wander out and continue their conversation. I'd be left there on the screen saying, 'Hey, guys, come back!' "
Such a great idea for those of us who work in a virtual world -- and who doesn't? Am wondering if this will catch on.
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