Will Oracle or Salesforce Buy Slack? | Ammirati on Innovation

<p>The Big Themes:<br />• The power of the network effect: Will it trigger next wave of M&A for software companies?<br />• 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.<br />• 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?<br />• 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.</p><p>The Big Quotes:<br />“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.”</p><p>This episode is brought to you by BMC Software</p>