Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation

Cloud Wars Live with Bob Evans

The Big Themes:
• The power of the network effect: Will it trigger next wave of M&A for software companies?
• A crisis is a terrible thing to waste: This crisis has been a great accelerant – and now the question is can you take advantage of that accelerant.
• Tech addiction: What’s happening across society right now is around tech addiction. There is a right way and there is a wrong way – which do you choose?
• Pets.com was way too early: The Super Bowl commercial in 2001 was the demise of pets.com. Actually, the idea was perfect—but the timing was brutally wrong. There’s a big lesson in that for all of us today.

The Big Quotes:
“Three cell phones that can't talk to each other don't really have any value by themselves. It's the ties between the three that become valuable.”

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