Arik Hesseldahl

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Yammer’s New Sales VP Comes From Salesforce.com

Social enterprise software player Yammer named David Obrand as its vice president for global sales. What makes it all the more interesting is where Obrand last worked: Salesforce.com, the company behind Yammer’s main market rival, Chatter. Obrand had been vice president of vertical sales at Salesforce, and spent 10 years there.


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The center of gravity at the university appears to have shifted. The school now looks like a giant tech incubator with a football team.

— Nicholas Thompson, in a New Yorker article entitled, “The End of Stanford?”