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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Yammer comes up
Rippling vs. Deel Lawsuit: WTF Happens Now? The Future of the Late Stage Private Market · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:35 Jason Lemkin If that don't happen, like the Yammer and other deals, we don't make any money if they don't like pay three X the last round guys.
Jake Saper, GP @ Emergence Capital: "We Sold Salesforce Early and Lost Out on Billions" · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 24:33 Jake Saper Yammer was expensive.
Eran Zinman, Co-Founder & Co-CEO @Monday.com: Going Upmarket, International and Multi-Product |E1247 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 8:54 Eran Zinman Uh, if you remember back in the days, there were other players like Yammer.
Mamoon Hamid: AI - Where Value Accrues, Startups vs Incumbents & Scaling Laws | E1217 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 28:36 Mamoon Hamid This is, uh, when Yammer got acquired by Microsoft, uh, it was a 1.2 billion dollar acquisition. 3 times in the scene
Avi Eyal: Making $2.3BN on Monday, Stripe & PillPack from Entrée Capital MP | E1173 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jason Lemkin: Why Pricing is Worse Than Ever and There is More Funding Than Ever | E1157 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 1:24:04 Jason Lemkin Plus, they had Yammer.
Jason Lemkin: Cold Email Tips; Why Only 15% of Founders Listen to their VCs | 20VC #954 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
- ▶ 25:46 Jason Lemkin There was a famous tweet that David Sacks had, um, before he started investing in craft that all the good ideas in SAS were done after he sold Yammer because yeah, this was, I
20VC: Wunderlist & Pitch Founder, Christian Reber on His Personal Relationship with Risk, Money, Whether the Sale to Microsoft was a Mistake, What Great Product Designs Means Today & Why Founders Investing External Capital is a Distraction
- ▶ 10:24 Christian Reber Screwed up multiple acquisitions like Yammer or Skype, and they promised me when we sold it that they will try their very best not to screw up Wunderlist, and I think they did.
20VC: CRV's George Zachary on His Relationship To Money and How it has Changed Over Time, Why The Best Founders Have Often Experienced Parental or Home Instability and The Stories Behind Investing in Unicorns; PillPack, Yammer and Udacity
- ▶ 15:36 Harry Stebbings I do want to touch on some of the businesses you've backed, though, because I spoke to some of the founders before the show, and specifically two, and one that was a very special one was when I chatted to David Sachs at Yammer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:58 George Zachary If someone had said, oh, you know, there is no market for Yammer for ground up messaging between person to person, that everything is just email, you could easily prove that Yammer wouldn't exist, and that there was no model for it. 2 times in the scene
20VC: Chamath Palihapitiya on Why IPOs and Direct Listings Are Broken, Turning Social Capital Into A Combination of Berkshire Hathaway, Koch Industries and The Red Cross, Why Forecasts Are Worthless, What Creates True Defensibility & Why You Have To Be Pr
- ▶ 0:21 Harry Stebbings Social's portfolio includes the likes of Slack, Yammer, Front, Intercom, and Carter, to name a few incredible companies.
20VC: Craft Ventures' David Sacks on How To Assess Founder Psychology, How To Accurately Evaluate CAC, Burn and Churn & What Makes The Very Best Startup Boards
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings David then founded Yammer, the secure solution for internal corporate communication and collaboration, which was acquired by Microsoft for 1.2 billion dollars.
- ▶ 3:34 David Sacks After that, I founded Genie, which then pivoted into becoming Yammer, which we sold to Microsoft, and also did a stint as a CEO at Zenefits.
- ▶ 5:13 David Sacks And similarly, Gammer was started in the wake of the 2008, 2009 economic crash.
- ▶ 19:25 David Sacks But if it blinds the founder to seeking advice or seeking to balance their psychology or their perspective, I think that's dangerous, and so I would sort of counsel against the sort of auteur mentality, and founders should realize that…
- ▶ 30:07 David Sacks I mean, certainly when, when we were doing PayPal, the company came so close to death so many times when I was doing Yammer and had to compete heads on against Salesforce.
- ▶ 33:16 David Sacks When I was the founder of Yammer, we had George Zachary from CRV and Jason Green from Emergence, and 3 times in the scene
20VC: How To Scientifically Measure Product-Market Fit, How To Efficiently and Accurately Segment Users Into Cohorts, Why Investors Analysing CAC's at Pre-Seed Is Not Useful & How To Determine Between Customer Feedback to Accept vs Reject with Daniel Eric
- ▶ 0:29 Harry Stebbings ...on an ongoing basis, and Daniel's raised funding from the likes of David Sachs at Craft Ventures, Jeff Morris Jr., Todd and Rahul from Superhumans Fund, and then also Brianne Kimmel at Work Life Ventures, and prior to founding Viable…
- ▶ 3:13 Daniel Erickson So I moved down to the Bay Area in late 2010, and by early 2011, I was working at Yammer as an early engineer. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:38 Harry Stebbings I guess specifically with regards to PMF, what were your lessons on experiencing the product market fit of each engine, maybe starting with Yammer and progressing? 4 times in the scene
20VC: Why You Never Want To Fight A Fair Fit For Distribution, Why No Great Company Is Built with 1 Product and When To Release Your Second & What Founders Can Do To Extract The Most From Their Cap Table with Shoaib Makani, Founder & CEO @ KeepTruckin
- ▶ 20:53 Shoaib Makani And so, you know, I had seen bottoms up adoption work in the enterprise for other companies when I was in venture companies like Expensify and Dropbox and Yammer.
20VC: Kleiner Perkins' Mamoon Hamid on The Strategy Behind The New $600m "Back To The Future" Fund, The Truth To Price Sensitivity at Series A & Why Venture Team Building Is Like Basketball Team Building
- ▶ 0:55 Harry Stebbings Figma, Intercom, Netscope, Slack, and Yammer, just to name a few.
20VC: When Should CEOs Ask Their VC For Help, When Do Companies Really Need A Board & What The Series A Expansion Means For Startups with Max Gazor, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:27 Harry Stebbings Twitter, Yammer, Zendesk, and ClassPass, just to name a few.
20VC: Bessemer's Ethan Kurzweil on How To View Pattern Recognition and Deal With The Anti-Portfolio, The Next Frontier In Developer Focussed Businesses & Why eSports Is Interesting Again
- ▶ 20:16 Ethan Kurzweil Well, one early on in my career was a company called Yammer that we missed.
20VC: Khosla's Keith Rabois on How To Create Sustainability Behind Growth, How To Assess The Potential Of Individuals & Teams & The Biggest Takeaways from LinkedIn, Paypal & Square
- ▶ 0:57 Harry Stebbings Simultaneously, he must have one of the best angel track records ever, having invested early in YouTube, Yammer, Palantir, Lyft, Airbnb, Eventbrite, and Quora, just to name a few of the outstanding companies in his portfolio.
20VC: AngelList's Naval Ravikant on The Secrets To Success At Seed, Why Micro VC Is The Return of Traditional Series A & Why We Will See The Unbundling Of Traditional VC Brands
- ▶ 0:10 Harry Stebbings As one of the key individuals in the Valley, he's invested in over a hundred startups, including the likes of Twitter, Postmates, Uber, Yammer, and Thumbtack, just to name a few of his incredible portfolio companies.
20VC: Social Capital's Mamoon Hamid on Disrupting The Venture Model & Advancing Humanity By Solving The World's Toughest Problems
- ▶ 0:58 Harry Stebbings Box and Yammer, and Mamoon started his Silicon Valley career in 1997 at Xilinx, where he spent six years in various engineering and marketing roles.
20VC: 500 Startups' Dave McClure on Whether Unicorns Are Necessary For Venture Returns & Why Ownership Is Not The Math To Think About When Investing
- ▶ 19:00 Dave McClure Um, initially when I started at PayPal, Dave Sachs was my boss who went on to run Yammer, which got acquired by Microsoft for about a billion bucks.
20VC: Why Bots Are The New Black, Conversational Interface Is The Next of For Consumerisation and The Determinants Of A Successful Marketplace with Annie Kadavy, General Partner @ CRV
- ▶ 0:33 Harry Stebbings Annie is a general partner at the renowned Charles River Ventures, who have invested in the likes of Twitter, Yammer, and Mailbox, just to name a few.