Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
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Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
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Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#2I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#3I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
Only if the value of you sharing that information at that moment exceeds the value of that information by itself.
Steve Jobs/Andy Rubin were preaching that mobile was the future for longer than I can remember but only after they had something to sell everyone else.
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#4I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
What do you mean? Are there no advantages to openly sharing ideas? Declaring your goals as a means of reaching like minded employees and business partners? What's worth more, secretly choosing the right investment or sharing ideas? Do you think he's only after money? Is there any value in getting credit for your ideas?
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#5I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
What if they have no access to the capital required to make good on that knowledge, but get value out of signaling forecasting abilities?
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#6I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
What if they have no access to the capital required to make good on that knowledge, but get value out of signaling forecasting abilities?
Or you need to convince people of your forecasting ability in order to get capital.
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#7I can't help but think that people who truly feel like they have unique insight into the future would be insane to share it publicly.
There's a sweet spot where you're right enough to say "I told you so" and vague enough that no one can use the info.
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#8"We have an industry that has a history of stinginess and that does not have a good history of giving back."
That doesn't match anything I've heard or read, from what I can tell tech entrepreneurs constantly give back, or at the least consistently invest back. I'm positive this is bias, but is there another industry that creates as many investors? Either angel or future VC partners?
That's not quite the right question, because of course finance would lead in number of investors total, but I mean like created company in industry, this case tech, then invested in more companies in that industry.
Re: Marc Benioff on where big tech is headed
#9"We have an industry that has a history of stinginess and that does not have a good history of giving back." That doesn't match anything I've heard or read, from what I can tell tech entrepreneurs constantly give back, or at the least consistently invest back. I'm positive this is bias, but is there another industry that creates as many investors? Either angel or future VC partners? That's not quite the right questio…
how is salesforce.com going to give back to the big data community?
it's a bit like apple. there's no way to pass their "improvements" to BSD on to the BSD community even if they felt magnimonious some day...
generally big tech (aside from IBM, Xerox Parc, and the OLD GUARD that actually did paid research) today are webstack leechers...
maybe the VCs even try to clone techstacks from successful startups but minus that genius builder person who arbitrarily chose reasonably suitable tools because she was familiar and comfortable with them... so instead we get ten million companies looking for "xyz engineers" which is just a big stupid turd sitting in front of us: no, you need a person who may possibly have a comp sci education but has hands on experience building stuff and sees how things work.
Where's our moon landing, where's the next major paradigm shift in user interfaces coming from? where is the salesforce.com ai institute where we can study the big data techniques they pioneered?
the last refuge of real computing == academia? or perhaps the fringe? garages? hey it's never been cheaper to make an asic, they say...