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David Sacks, cofounder and former CEO of Yammer, has left his position at Microsoft after having steered the enterprise social networking service for nearly six years. Sacks, a former PayPal exec who has been an angel investor in various startups and even once dabbled in producing and financing an independent feature film, …

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  1. joeW

    Yammer failed

    Because it was too like Facebook in look and feel. Why was that a bad thing? Because the suits and executives in its target companies thought "What? They want us to pay for this? But it's just like Facebook, and Facebook is free! We want a private Facebook, that's as free as Facebook - why is that a problem?!"

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      Re: Yammer failed

      Was it really a failure?

      I mean convincing anyone ever to stump up for something so useless (and so easily built on the cheap) is surely a success of some sort, isn't it?

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