{"id":1304,"date":"2016-11-01T14:47:20","date_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/marc-andreessen-joins-board-of-dialpad-the-desk-phone-killer.html"},"modified":"2016-11-01T14:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-11-01T14:47:20","slug":"marc-andreessen-joins-board-of-dialpad-the-desk-phone-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/marc-andreessen-joins-board-of-dialpad-the-desk-phone-killer.html","title":{"rendered":"Marc Andreessen joins board of Dialpad, the desk phone killer"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Silicon Valley\u2019s most talkative investor will bring his enterprise experience and connections to the makers of UberConference. Office cloud communications startup Dialpad<\/a> today announced that Marc Andreessen is joining its board of directors. \u201cThe company\u2019s hit its stride\u201d Andreessen tells TechCrunch. He calls DialPad \u201cA complete cloud, mobile business telephone system that makes all the old desk phones and PBX systems just obsolete and unnecessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Marc\u2019s\u00a0fund Andreessen Horowitz led Dialpad\u2019s $15 million Series B<\/a>\u00a0back in 2012 and he became an advisor, while one of the firm\u2019s board partners, Slingbox founder Blake Krikorian, joined the board. About six months ago Andreessen planned to eventually switch into the board seat with Krikorian becoming an advisor. But Krikorian tragically passed away in August, so Andreessen waited to announce assuming the board seat until now.<\/p>\n

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Andreessen\u2019s background founding and running enterprise web hosting service Loudcloud during the dot-com bust could give Dialpad an advantage. The startup now has 25,000 customers including\u00a0Uber, Motorola Solutions, Netflix, and Hillary Clinton\u00a0for its products. Those include Dialpad, which lets businesses replace legacy desk phone systems with calls routed to employees\u2019 own mobile phones, and UberConference, which simplifies conference calling.<\/p>\n

Along with Andreessen, Dialpad\u2019s board is now composed of the startup\u2019s founders Craig Walker, John Rector, and Brian Peterson; GV partner Rich Miner; and Amasia partner John Kim. Dialpad\u2019s\u00a0$35 million Series C in 2015 brought it to a total of $53 million in funding<\/a>. Andreessen also serves on the boards of\u00a0Facebook,\u00a0HP, Mode Media, Anki, Honor, Lytro, Mori, OpenGov, Samsara, and TinyCo.<\/p>\n

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CEO Craig Walker described his excitement about Andreessen \u2014 \u201cOne of the smartest guys in the industry or even the world\u201d \u2014 joining Dialpad\u2019s board. \u201cBeing able to open any door, giving really good guidance, and having lived the experience personally gives us a lot of leverage\u201d he explains.\u00a0Andreessen notes that \u201cThe thing with enterprise is some things change a lot, and some thing don\u2019t change at all. It\u2019s important to know what\u2019s what.\u201d Dialpad will have to battle a crowd of telephony competitors as well as the status quo.<\/p>\n

Already, Walker says Andreessen \u201creally helped me to focus on the higher end of the market. As a CEO, you sometimes get drawn to every shiny object.\u201d But Andreessen advised that the age of mobile has finally matured to the point that for large companies, \u201cit\u2019s time to ditch all the old stuff\u201d, and Dialpad can win lucrative enterprise contracts rather than chasing small businesses.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a pivotal moment for enterprise communications, when a skilled sales organization can convince customers to abandon their legacy investment in desk phones and accept a new product that doesn\u2019t compromise with the past. That means not only persuading someone to buy software, but teaching them to integrate it while defeating the champions for the alternative within their company.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you pull that off, that\u2019s why you get the big win. You\u2019re the new generation and you end up taking over everything\u201d Andreessen concludes. Clearly he sees that opportunity in Dialpad.<\/p>\n

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