Openwave, every mention
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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Openwave comes up
20VC: Why VC Is A Game of Maximising Serendipity, How VCs Can Characterise Their Approach To Working & Product Lessons from Jack Dorsey & Sonos' John MacFarlane with Kevin Thau, General Partner @ Spark Capital
- ▶ 0:51 Harry Stebbings Before Twitter, Kevin was employee number seven at Software.com, which became OpenWave.
- ▶ 7:15 Kevin Thau Everyone from earlier in my career, I worked for a guy named John McFarlane at software.com and open wave, you know, this was in the late nineties and then he went on to found Sonos. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 25:38 Kevin Thau Earlier in my career, he was a superstar that came out of Microsoft, and then I worked with him at OpenWave.
20VC: Accel GP, Rich Wong on When Is The Right Time To Scale A Startup, Optimising Initial vs Follow-On Investment Decision-Making & The Globalisation of VC In Recent Years
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings And prior to joining Excel, Rich served as SVP of Products for Mobile Pioneer, Open Wave Systems, and CMO of Covad Communications.
- ▶ 2:48 Rich Wong I ran the products group of a company called OpenWave Systems, which was a pioneer in a wireless internet and mobile technologies.