$27B for Slack: Bargain for Benioff | Ammirati on Innovation

<p>The Big Themes:<br />• You've got great leaders at the top of the house: In both those companies you really understand innovation.<br />• One of our venture companies: We sold a company to a publicly traded company that when that transaction happened, I got a lot of congratulations.<br />• That ship has sailed: I also think though that speaks to another thing that we expected to happen when you plug into an organization – like in this case of Salesforce or Oracle.<br />• Very fast moving dynamic: So we need to keep in mind not to get locked into an idea that will surely be obsolete in a matter of weeks or months.</p><p>The Big Quotes:<br />“But that doesn't mean that the $27 billion was a fair price. I think it probably was not unfortunately for the shareholders.”</p><p>“The game was how many times could you say synergy in a windowless conference room for 30 minutes?”</p><p>“I think in enterprise tech you're really seeing something of this happening now in Slack.”</p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software.</p>