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Do you have a source on that rationale for Salesforce backing out?
by meowface 10y ago
Do you have a source on that rationale for Salesforce backing out?
- nl 10y agoIt's been pretty widely reported. This is a good summary: Twitter's reputation as a haven for trolls was one of the key reasons both Disney and Salesforce declined to make bids for Twitter, according to reports from Bloomberg and CNBC host Jim Cramer.... the family-friendly animation giant had even hired two investment banks to work out a bid for the service, but eventually decided not to put a deal on the table, fearing that Twitter's sexist, racist, and otherwise unpleasant abusers would sully Disney's image..... Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had expressed concerns about Twitter's problems with user abuse directly to him. "What's happened is, a lot of the bidders are looking at people with lots of followers and seeing the hatred," Cramer said, claiming that Salesforce was "very concerned about this notion." http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328380/twitter-abuse-disney-salesforce-bids-pulled http://www.theverge.com/2016/10/19/13328380/twitter-abuse-di...
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