Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt • Hacker News Board

Re: Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt

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Post by iamclovin » Mon, Sep 05, 2011, 2:00 PM UTC

skrebbel wrote: post #8

iamclovin wrote: post #4

Apologies for the shameless plug but if you don't have the time to watch the hour long interview right now, you can watch it later using our invite-only app: http://getdenso.com/videos/28821-marc-benioff-and-eric-schmi... If you request for an invite, as a token of our thanks, you're in for a little surprise ;)

Wait, it's invite-only, but you're doing promo on forums to get invites? No offense intended, but since I only want to be in a club that won't have me as their member, my interest just dropped.

Apologies if this seemed crass. We were actually experimenting with a "promotional" aspect of the site by seeing if people would request for an invite if given a relevant and good enough incentive.

Spoiler: The incentive in this case was a chance to watch the video later offline on any of your devices.

Apologies again if it was out of line.

Re: Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt

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Post by threepointone » Mon, Sep 05, 2011, 7:14 PM UTC

threepointone wrote: post #2

Please don't editorialize the title.

Thanks to whoever changed the title.

Re: Marc Benioff interviews Eric Schmidt

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Post by bgentry » Wed, Sep 07, 2011, 6:51 AM UTC

aik wrote: post #7

I'd like to comment on one point that Eric made that is very contrary to popular belief [summary, not a quote]: Outsourcing of manufacturing often does NOT occur as a result of lower labor costs abroad, but is rather a matter of quality outcomes. Plants around the world are rated on attributes like reliability, robustness, quality in general -- and the US often does not score very high. Eric hints that this could be…

I believe it's rather a lack of something more fundamental -- a problem with the emergent culture in general that has led to a lack of focus on education in the minds of many youth -- other things have taken priority.

I strongly agree. How can you educate a group of people that doesn't care to be educated if their parents don't push them hard enough to value their own education above other interests?