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David Sacks says the US should judge its success in the AI race by market share, and that roughly 80% share for American technology in five years would mean it succeeded.
“if we look around the world in five years and we see that American companies, American technology has, say, 80% market share, it means we did a good job.”
David Sacks says his company Yammer was acquired by Microsoft about a decade before this conversation and became part of the SharePoint group.
“about a decade ago when my company Yammer was acquired by Microsoft. We were part of, uh, the SharePoint group”
David Sacks recalls that revenue earned by non-Microsoft implementers of SharePoint was about seven times Microsoft's own SharePoint software revenue.
“the revenue from the SharePoint ecosystem, meaning non-Microsoft, the, um, the consulting community, the implementers who would go into companies and implement SharePoint. I think their revenue was something like seven times greater than Microsoft's own software revenue.”