Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation
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.”This episode is brought to you by BMC Software