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Spence: BlackBerry Storm ruined ten years of RIM's reputation in one weekend
“We basically took 10 years of building an amazing reputation for reliability, quality, And create experience and threw it out of the window over the course of a weekend when we first launched storm and a whole bunch of people had a really bad experience.”
BlackBerry Messenger had 80M daily active users before WhatsApp gained traction
“BlackBerry Messenger at that point was eighty million daily active users. This is before WhatsApp had any traction, any other iMessage had much Attraction”
Founder John MacFarlane left Sonos' board completely when Spence became CEO
“John McFarland stepped away completely. So unlike most founders and CEOs and large shareholders that maybe go onto the board or become executive chairman or something like that, John said, no, I've seen how this works and goes badly at many companies.”