Yammer was probably one of the most bizarre m&a stories ever.
replyThe same reason there’s probably some dude pitching adding AI to notepad. Fad and fashion.
replyIn the last 20 years “peer to peer”, “Uber for X”, “gamification” and now of course “AI” were the must have tech memes. Back in the day O’Reilly had a conference dedicated to the revolution of… XML.
Social was just another one. Now, even the social companies are kinda moving past social. It’s more about hoarding attention. But when Microsoft was shoveling money at Gartner, we had guys coming in dropping books about how the social enterprise would revolutionize business.
eh, that guy who pitched AI for Notepad was a product of M$lop push for AI everywhere. No one seriously though it needed AI, but if they're trolling for AI pitches, of course that's an easy target, it's already text based. GUI stuff is hard, but raw text?
replyI actually didn’t know that was a thing. I was trying to cook up something quick and absurd. Truth is stranger than fiction!
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