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▶ 6:29 Jason Calacanis Alright, so Sax, this is a natural, um, passing of the ball to you and the baton, because you did Yammer, sold it to Microsoft for a billion dollars, and obviously Slack was the mobile successor to, uh, the desktop version of Yammer, and…
▶ 8:59 David Sacks And I do remember, you know, back in 2014, the whole Yammer sales team was basically rolling off, um, because of, you know, Microsoft acquired the company in 2012 and that was an integration period.
▶ 12:34 Chamath Palihapitiya Or you overcome it by going the same pace as somebody like Microsoft, but with an equivalent product portfolio. 7 times in the scene
▶ 16:46 Chamath Palihapitiya If you looked at the team's product, it was much more directly competitive with zoom.
▶ 25:12 Jason Calacanis I mean, think about the people who were at Apple in the eighties, or Microsoft in the eighties, or Amazon in the nineties.

▶ 55:38 David Friedberg Read Hastings put out that fantastic PowerPoint that I think we all know really well, the cultural playbook from Netflix.

▶ 2:31 Jason Calacanis In between, he did a little company called Yammer, which Microsoft bought for a billion dollars.
▶ 15:48 Chamath Palihapitiya And so, um, you know, I remember in, at AIM and ICQ, we, you know, uh, did all this hand-wringing and all these meetings between us and Microsoft and Yahoo to make our messaging networks interoperate.
▶ 31:40 David Friedberg And they're competing viciously with Amazon and Microsoft and others in this enterprise cloud business marketplace that is continuously evolving, changing every year.

▶ 25:25 Jason Calacanis A lot of, uh, companies now, Microsoft, IBM, and others, Amazon, I think, are, uh,
▶ 49:25 Chamath Palihapitiya It's also Microsoft.

▶ 2:18 Jason Calacanis Now, of course, you founded, ah, the, ah, Kraft Venture Capital Firm, and people know before that, ah, you obviously did Yammer and sold that to Microsoft for a billion dollars plus, and before that, you were, ah, the COO at PayPal. 2 times in the scene
▶ 21:48 Chamath Palihapitiya So don't, don't quite, you know, don't look at Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and a handful of, you know, internet SaaS companies and kid yourself.

▶ 2:40 Chamath Palihapitiya Um, then, uh, moved back up here, started Genie, pivoted, started Yammer, um, sold that for more than a billion dollars to, uh, Microsoft, um, and became during that time, frankly, one of the most unsung heroes, uh, of company founders…

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