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Deeter: IBM bought Red Hat for $33B because it was late
“Thirty-three billion dollars for Red Hat. Because IBM was jammed, they were late to the cloud party, and hybrid cloud is their attempt to be relevant again in the cloud universe.”
Deeter: Salesforce paid record 35x multiple for Slack acquisition
“35 X revenue multiple paid for what is a fantastic business by one of the leaders of cloud with Salesforce really showing that this was the second largest enterprise software acquisition in history after only IBM's purchase a red hat, but also the largest mult…”
IBM was Slack's largest customer with nearly 130,000 daily active users
“So today we have, we count IBM as our largest customer with close to a 130,000 daily active users.”
Siroker: IBM has hundreds of non-developers running daily tests on Optimizely
“They've seen 70% of the decision gets made before sales person is involved. So they use Optimizely. They've got a team of hundreds of people doing A-B testing, optimization every single day that don't require developers to be involved in the process.”