Acquired

Episode 8: Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist (w/ Kurt DelBene)

Feb 29, 2016

01:02:18

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Is There a Way to Integrate Calendaring and Tasks?

02:08

Is It So Important to Have the Absolute Best Clients?

01:40

Microsoft's Mobile First Cloud First Company

03:59

Introduction

2min

Teagus - A New Way to Get Insight

2min

Achieved - Kurt Del Beni

4min

What's New Again?

5min

Microsoft's Mobile First Cloud First Company

4min

The Unified Inbox

2min

Is There a Way to Integrate Calendaring and Tasks?

2min

Integration of People

3min

Outlook for iPhone - 360 Feedback Loop

3min

10.

Javier's Background From Netscape and VMware Played a Part in the Accompli Acquisition?

4min

11.

Is It So Important to Have the Absolute Best Clients?

2min

12.

The Client App Is the Front Door to the Consumer Experience

2min

13.

Office for iPad

2min

14.

OA, the Outlook Web Access App, Was Just Not Good.

4min

15.

What's Your Mobile Workload?

4min

16.

The BYOD World Is Here to Stay, Right?

5min

17.

Is There a Balancing of Priorities?

3min

18.

Is This Acquisition Too Early?

4min

19.

I'm Going to Give This an a or B Plus

2min

20.

Who Got the Truth Now?

3min

Ben and David have special guest Kurt DelBene on to discuss Microsoft's acquisition of Acompli, Sunrise, and Wunderlist. Kurt is the EVP of Corporate Strategy and Planning at Microsoft, and joins to discuss Microsoft’s cloud-first, mobile-first strategy, and the importance of being cross-platform in the modern era. They cover:

How the app of Outlook Mobile on iPhone and Android came to be.
How to decide whether to build vs. buy, and how it plays into the strategy for Office.
How to preserve a culture and a team, and how Javier Soltero came to run all of Outlook at Microsoft.
The origin of Outlook on the PC, originally led by Brian MacDonald as “Ren”.
How to balance a business with competing priorities, and a decision-making framework for acquisitions in a large company.
How to measure the success of an acquisition, and how sometimes, it’s not by measuring revenue at all.

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