Eran Megiddo, OneNote, Wunderlist and EDU's Corporate Vice President, gives a review of FY16, a preview of FY17, talks the importance of summer for EDU, and what opportunities exist with the recent LinkedIn acquisition.
Shownotes
- Intro of Eran - 1:34
- Eran's first software sale at age 12 to a Dutch TV station - 2:25
- Dropping out of university and joining military intelligence - 4:00
- Was Eran a spy? - 5:44
- Eran founds his first startup - 6:50
- Starting the 2nd startup - 9:13
- Microsoft acquires Eran's company - 12:00
- How Eran learned marketing on a flight back from NY from one book - 13:46
- FY16 review - 14:55
- Neutralizing Google software with our web apps - 17:37
- RS1 improvements - 18:49
- Deployment cycles impact in EDU - 19:35
- Neutralize Google hardware - 20:30
- Eran offered EDU job 3 times in his career before; why he said yes this time - 24:50
- FY17 look ahead - 29:30
- Bots & OneNote - 36:35
- Should OneNote find another differentiator? - 39:33
- Need to maintain leadership position on Ink and Canvas - 39:49
- Wunderlist goals for FY17 - 41:20
- EDU goals for FY17 - 42:42
- Summer for EDU...it's go time - 47:15
- LinkedIn acquisition - 49:03
- Did $26B make sense? - 51:33
- Strategic alignment - 53:00
- EDU impact of LinkedIn: Lynda - 53:30
- Rapid-fire questions for Eran - 56:32
- What keeps you up at night? - 56:48
- What makes you excited to jump of bed in the morning? - 58:28
- What's the most surprising thing you've learned in the last 30 days? - 59:42
