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Chip Stocks Crash, $20B Fund Margin Called, Frontier Labs: SLOW DOWN AI, Mamdani's Grocery Stores
- ▶ 0:48 Jason Calacanis You closed some of those big seven-figure deals when you were doing, uh, Yammer.
Iran War, Oil Shock, Off Ramps, AI's Revenue Explosion and PR Nightmare
- ▶ 1:14:06 Jason Calacanis Hey, when you sold Yammer, we didn't take enough.
Satya Nadella on AI’s Business Revolution: What Happens to SaaS, OpenAI, and Microsoft?
- ▶ 18:02 David Sacks Well, you're right, and I remember, actually, you're, you brought back some memories from, this is about a decade ago when my company Yammer was acquired by Microsoft.
- ▶ 25:56 David Sacks You, you got me thinking about Yammer, and for people who don't know, um, 2 times in the scene
AI Bubble Pops, Zuck Freezes Hiring, Newsom’s 2028 Surge, Russia/Ukraine Endgame
- ▶ 12:25 Chamath Palihapitiya There's a couple of very early and important successes like Yammer, which SAC started, which I was very lucky to be an investor of, but then it took many years for the handful of winners to get really sorted out.
The All-In Holiday Spectacular
- ▶ 43:38 Aaron Levie But actually, can we be, there was, it was pretty cool though, that the literal upcoming president of America mentioned Yammer in a tweet.
OpenAI's $150B conversion, Meta's AR glasses, Blue-collar boom, Risk of nuclear war
- ▶ 24:13 Jason Calacanis So imagine you take every single legal document sacks that Yammer had when you had Chamath as an investor, I'm not sure if he's on the board, and you can start asking questions about the documents.
Big Fed rate cuts, AI killing call centers, $50B govt boondoggle, VC's rough years, Trump/Kamala
- ▶ 50:21 Chamath Palihapitiya You just can't do that anymore unless you get extraordinarily lucky, which by the way, I got when Saks was running Yammer.
Trump verdict, COVID Cover-up, Crypto Corner, Salesforce drops 20%, AI correction?
- ▶ 1:12:21 David Sacks He launched Chatter, which was a competitor to my product Yammer back then, but he was ahead of the curve on, on social and the enterprise.
E164: Zuck’s Senate apology, Elon's comp package voided, crony capitalism, Reddit IPO, drone attack
- ▶ 3:44 Jason Calacanis I mean, you're still riding on that Yammer and PayPal.
E161: US strikes Houthis, market instability, Q1 rate cuts in doubt, Carta's major mishap, DEI
- ▶ 46:32 Jason Calacanis That was what you pioneered at Yammer. 3 times in the scene
E159: The Bestie Awards! Recapping the best and worst of 2023
- ▶ 25:46 David Sacks I was actually, no, I was locked up for two years in the wake of the Yammer deal. 3 times in the scene
E158: Global trade disrupted, Adobe/Figma canceled, realtors sued, Trump blocked
- ▶ 1:10:05 David Sacks It's, it's basically Yammer.
- ▶ 1:10:13 David Sacks Yeah, you gotta say Yammer three point 4 times in the scene
E156: Ivy League antisemitism, macro, SaaS recovery, Gemini, Figma deal delay + big Friedberg update
- ▶ 1:14:51 David Sacks I think this pertains to all the startup ecosystem, because look, I remember when I was doing Yammer, we decided to open an office in Europe and we decided to
E152: Real estate chaos, WeWork bankruptcy, Biden regulates AI, Ukraine's “Cronkite Moment” & more
- ▶ 29:30 David Friedberg I mean, Saks, you had Yammer in San Francisco, didn't you?
E128: Google enters AI wars, Druck’s warning, Trump crushes CNN & more
- ▶ 16:02 David Sacks He's the founder of Yammer.
E100: Reflecting on the first 100 shows, fan questions, nuclear threat, markets, Amazon & more
- ▶ 0:52 Jason Calacanis Like Colin in Yammer.
- ▶ 51:10 David Sacks It's, you can think of this idea as Yammer two point O. 3 times in the scene
E98: Big tech starts making cuts, Fed incompetency, global debt, Russia/Ukraine & more
- ▶ 21:46 David Sacks The startup I created Yammer was built largely during a downturn.
E96: Adobe acquires Figma for $20B, TPB SPAC, FedEx CEO's recession warning, macro picture & more
- ▶ 33:51 David Sacks I can tell you what's going to happen because I kind of experienced this with, with Yammer when Microsoft bought my company 10 years ago. 3 times in the scene
E95: Winter is Coming, Europe's energy crisis, Kim Kardashian's new PE firm & more
- ▶ 58:39 David Sacks You know, many years ago and which is when I started doing Yammer and then, you know, craft started focusing on SAS, which is at least when you do a B to B product, you know, software as a service, you can charge enough money for it that…
E85: SBF's crypto bailout, Zendesk sells for ~$10B, buyout targets, US diplomacy, AlphaFold & more
- ▶ 35:39 David Sacks And by the way, I mean, I remember we shared, uh, when I was doing Yammer a decade ago, we shared a floor in, uh, our, an office building at four, 10 Townsend with, um, with Zendesk.
#AIS: Bestie AMA with Valor's Antonio Gracias
- ▶ 24:37 David Sacks Well, I was just saying, Jamath, I mean, didn't you invest in Yammer after I started playing in your 4 times in the scene
#AIS: Pear VC’s Mar Hershenson on making successful founders
- ▶ 8:02 Mar Hershenson YouTube, Yelp, Yammer, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera, right?
E80: Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risks, Tiger Global, predictions and more
- ▶ 1:22:59 David Sacks Um, my company Yammer was built during the great recession.
E77: Tech work culture, crypto regulation, stablecoins, $NFLX & more w/ Coinbase CEO Brian Armstrong
- ▶ 16:30 David Sacks We were using Yammer, very open culture.
E75: Fast shuts down, board culpability, Elon buys 9% of Twitter, deplatforming's evolution & more
- ▶ 31:02 Chamath Palihapitiya There were one or two of us that you would talk to pretty consistently.
E62: Elizabeth Holmes verdict, fraud origins & takeaways, navigating "The Great Markdown" & more
- ▶ 54:26 David Sacks Uh, Yammer was probably built after the 2008 sort of great recession.
- ▶ 1:04:13 Jason Calacanis You launched Yammer at my conference, and I put the fix in for you to win.
E60: The 2021 Bestie Awards PLUS Jack Dorsey starts the Web3 Wars
- ▶ 2:33 Jason Calacanis Like you did Andrew Gammer?
E53: Wealth tax, inflation as a capital allocator, big tech earnings, paternity leave & more
- ▶ 54:02 David Sacks Yeah, I'll tell you Yammer's trajectory. 2 times in the scene
E51: Supply Chain Shortages, Inflation, DeSantis, Ted Sarandos Netflix Memo, Cancel Culture, Fan Q&A
- ▶ 1:29:59 David Sacks The second experience was Yammer.
E49: Coinbase CEO reflects on controversial blog, state of the markets, 1000 unicorns & more
- ▶ 1:12:38 Jason Calacanis If you're a great founder, when you were a great founder, you wouldn't want Andreessen Horowitz telling you how to run your HR and doing your marketing for you at Yammer.
E44: USA's Afghanistan embarrassment, China's new algo laws, future of robots + Italy recap!
- ▶ 8:48 David Sacks It's better than Yammer.
E43: Innovative venture strategies, Zymergen's implosion, Square acquires Afterpay & more
- ▶ 13:06 David Sacks I kind of run the SAS practice and my thesis is really the same as it was when I was doing Yammer, which is apply consumer growth tactics to enterprise software, make it go viral inside companies, uh, sort of sell it bottom up through the…
E41: Vaccine policy, Big Tech, DeepMind's latest breakthrough, wealth creation, opportunity & more
- ▶ 1:32:30 David Sacks No, no, because I did Yammer instead, and you know, Yammer was successful, and I got to be my own boss, and that was better, you know, so I, I don't know if I, I probably wouldn't have made as much money, but look, I've done, like you… 2 times in the scene
E39: West coast super drought & climate crisis, Nuclear virtue signaling, chaos in SF & more
- ▶ 51:50 David Sacks She worked at Yammer, you know, and I didn't, I thought it was out of bounds for, uh, not just a public official, but someone in the DA's office.
E27: The Great Inflation Debate, Amazon gets spicy on Twitter, rethinking supply chains & more
- ▶ 1:00:46 David Friedberg How do you feel about your Yammer sale for 1.2 billion at this point? 2 times in the scene
E26: State of Venture Capital, plus fan questions on longevity, decentralization & quantum computing
- ▶ 42:53 David Sacks I didn't really start Yammer until, well, I guess I started the predecessor company Jeannie when I was 34 and then Yammer pivoted into Yammer when I was 35. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 56:33 David Sacks They're seeing that these SaaS companies are, you know, we, I remember 10 years ago when I was doing Yammer, we thought that the best outcome that you could have as a SaaS company was like a one to two billion dollar exit.
E23: Radical DAs, breaking down FB/Google vs. Australia, sustained fear post-vaccine & fan questions
- ▶ 1:00:18 David Sacks So I'm, I'm focused on the area of bottom up SaaS, which is basically business software that can go viral, uh, very much in the mold of Yammer, which was a company I founded and sold back a dozen years ago.
E14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
- ▶ 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… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:58 David Sacks The big learning from Yammer, uh, you know, we learned this at Yammer from 2008 to 2012 is that enterprises don't self-serve, right? 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 18:34 David Sacks Um, but Benioff's dream has always been, at least since he, uh, you know, launched Chatter to compete with, with us when we were doing Yammer. 4 times in the scene
E6: Big Tech antitrust aftermath, potential effects of an M&A clampdown on Silicon Valley & more
- ▶ 2:31 Jason Calacanis In between, he did a little company called Yammer, which Microsoft bought for a billion dollars.
- ▶ 23:15 Jason Calacanis Would Yammer be worth more today, and would you be worth more money, would your investors be worth more money if Yammer had SPAC'd? 2 times in the scene
E5: WHO's incompetence, kicking off Cold War II, China's grand plan, 100X'ing American efficiency
- ▶ 6:46 Jason Calacanis He then decided to go create a billion dollar company in under three years called Yammer, uh, which Chamath made a ton of money on
E3: Modern Cold War, politicizing the pandemic & more with David Sacks & David Friedberg
- ▶ 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. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 44:11 David Sacks Well, back in, yeah, when we moved Yammer to San Francisco, which was 2009, I think we were able to get space for 20 dollars a foot per year.
E2: Rebooting economy, understanding corporate debt, avoiding a depression & more with David Sacks
- ▶ 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…