Yammer just got sold to Microsoft for over a billion dollars. Jive Software, the leader in "social software for the enterprise" is another Valley company, and it's worth over a billion, too. Salesforce, Successfactors, Netsuite... go down the list of Enterprise SaaS companies and not a single one of them is in New York City.
But isn't New York City the center of crappy enterprise IT experiences?
How is it possible that a small team of hackers hasn't escaped from the biggest midtown companies with a plan to free all of their enterprise brethren from cruddy software? Why is enterprise disruption completely dominated by companies outside NYC? We've made headway in just about every other area. Hell, we even made parts of the Mars rover, but off all things to suck at... Enterprise? Srsly?
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