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Chamath: Zoom has 90% of its R&D and OpEx in China
“The Zoom example is a terrible, the Zoom example is a terrible one, and the reason is that P&L would have a hole blown on the side of it if they did not have 90% of their R&D and OpEx in China.”
Sacks: Microsoft clones products from Slack, Okta, and Zoom to weaken them
“If Microsoft can basically clone the sort of the breakthrough innovative product, you know, just to say they do one every year and then they put a crappy version of that in their bundle. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 10% or 50% worse, but they give it away effectively for…”
Sacks: Tech incumbent software bundling is a form of economic dumping
“I think that this bundling behavior is a form of dumping where in the short run, it looks like consumers are benefiting because they're getting zoom, a zoom clone for free or, you know, a slack clone for free. But then what happens is once they've, you know, h…”
Dimon: Zoom multitasking reduces efficiency and breeds rudeness
“And if you don't think that slows down efficiency, creativity, creates rudeness, and stuff, it does, ok?”