Chapter
Selling Stocks and Starting Up with Ross Mayfield
19:51 - 25:29 (05:37)
Ross Mayfield shares his experience of selling stocks and starting a successful social collaboration enterprise, Socialtext, and how it led to the company being sold to Microsoft.
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Yammer, a product better than Chatter, was massively overpriced by Salesforce's Benioff during the tech crunch 40 conference.
19:51 - 21:49 (01:57)
Summary
Yammer, a product better than Chatter, was massively overpriced by Salesforce's Benioff during the tech crunch 40 conference. Afterwards, Benioff attempted to compete by lowering the price against Yammer's $15 per seat.
ChapterSelling Stocks and Starting Up with Ross Mayfield
EpisodeE14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
PodcastAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Chamath Palihapitiya discusses his mistake of selling half of his shares too soon, and the potential he saw for social collaboration inside the enterprise with his early investments in companies like Yammer and Slack.
21:49 - 24:32 (02:43)
Summary
Chamath Palihapitiya discusses his mistake of selling half of his shares too soon, and the potential he saw for social collaboration inside the enterprise with his early investments in companies like Yammer and Slack.
ChapterSelling Stocks and Starting Up with Ross Mayfield
EpisodeE14: Salesforce acquires Slack, DeepMind’s AlphaFold breakthrough, Trust Fund Socialists & more
PodcastAll-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
The speaker discusses the lesson he learned about selling stocks and emphasizes the importance of being able to sell for liquidity and moral obligation, but suggests keeping at least 20% of your shares to hold onto for the long term.
24:32 - 25:29 (00:56)
Summary
The speaker discusses the lesson he learned about selling stocks and emphasizes the importance of being able to sell for liquidity and moral obligation, but suggests keeping at least 20% of your shares to hold onto for the long term.