Verizon bought bluejeans almost 2 years ago for $500m. Likely put another $50m into it, enhanced it, brought on expensive sales and sales support to sell it and focus on telehealth and anyone who will buy it. Meanwhile, most customers are using Microsoft teams for conferencing. Think this will go the way of Go90 or Aol? Never consequences for poor leadership decisions that lead to large losses.
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Blue jeans.. go 90.. yahoo… kinda all starting to sound the same
Most of my meetings internally are not even bluejeans. I did have a drs appt over bluejeans so someone made a sale.
2018 VSP-er here... working for $2 Billion revenue company with around 2k employees, we were using Bluejeans when I joined company, company is moving over to zoom now.
BJ is a success! my section mgr does team huddles using the platform to the team from 10 feet away. there is a weird echo hearing the boss live from steps away and from the BJ stream. do bosses get browny points for using BJ?
These id--ts cheap out and it shows. Getting rid of Outlook was the start. Lipstick on a pig is the motto.
Slack is a headache and too noisy with all the channels. Definitely late too the party with bluejeans and now vz is scrambling for sales. Most customers already have something in place and don’t want to make a change. Bet the p&L for bluejeans has a lot of red.
Blue jeans, Slack and the denim in retail. Someone has a hard-on for this stuff. They only use blue jeans gets is employees requiring meetings with customers to be on blue jeans.
I get to work from home forever because I am a college educated spreadsheet jockey. We use Zoom.
During the height of the pandemic, K-12 customers would have been an easy sale...save for the fact that BlueJeans was a) not cost competitive, and b) had no learning platform (similar to Adobe connect) nor LMS (learning management system) integration.
Now they're getting aggressive with pricing and have a pretty robust training platform.
This would have been great...2 years ago. Too little, too late.
He is a great carney or carnival barker, but has he EVER gotten ONE SINGLE think right YET? It is always singing and dancing like an Indian movie, but while their box offices are stuffed with cash for their films, his always seems to be flimflams, quickly jumping from one over-titled job to the next but NEVER closing the deal on any of what he promises. Just sayin'
Bet Boston consulting “advised” sampath to make this very strategic bluejeans acquisition and it will be a huge win for vz. Boston consulting made a nice windfall and probably still gives vz great ideas. Bluejeans will be sold off in two years or just sunset.
Think about it. This product has gained no serious traction even when almost all businesses were working remote. This is the gang that could not shoot straight running the company and allows Google and T-Mobile to sm--k the company around incessantly.