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Kanji: European Investment Fund is too dominant and should be split into five
“I think if you have someone like the EIF where there's 30% of the aggregate capital of the LP commits, it's too big. What you should really have is what happened with AT&T in the US where they broke it down into the bells. You had five different bells kind of …”
Openwave could have built Skype or Twitter by diversifying beyond telecom carriers
“If we had taken the time to think carefully about who our customer base should be, you know, we could have built technologies like Skype, like Twitter as opposed to just continuing to build technology, selling to Orange or Singular or Nextel or AT&T, the custo…”
Ittycheria: Superior products could not easily overcome 1990s enterprise account control
“In the early nineties, the large companies had an enormous amount of account control. With customers. And so even though if you have the best mousetrap, it was still not easy to win business because these companies have such good account control. They take the…”