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Why Your ‘Brilliant’ Technology Fails To Have Impact | Tom Adeyoola, Metail | BoS Europe 2018

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So the ability to fly for twenty five hours at a time for a cost of eight thousand dollars rather than having to buy fractions of planes. Which was then implemented in 2007. So I just googled “Leading expert computer vision”. I felt the computer vision was crucial. And this was a great concept. And timing was critical.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

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The five things in the V2MOM: Your vision which is really the call to action. How do you avoid switching from ‘I’m going to set the vision and the goal’ to ‘I’m just gonna tell you what to do and you do it right now’? So yeah I started a company that Salesforce became our first customer of and then acquired us about 2007.