Craig Walker has sold startups to Yahoo and Google, and his current business, cloud communications company Dialpad, is valued at $2.2 billion. Still, the CEO says he learned his most important business lesson watching a "goofy" 1970s racing comedy, called "The Gumball Rally." But, Walker has been running internet communications companies for more than two decades, and he says he's seen "a lot of entrepreneurs" make the mistake of reacting to their competition: "They'll change their roadmap. When the internet bubble burst, an internet communications company he'd backed was floundering and in need of a steady hand. This time, Walker stayed on at Google for nearly four years, leading the transition of his former business into the Google Voice platform.

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Persons: Craig Walker, Walker, Raul Julia's, I'm, he's Organizations: Yahoo, Google, CNBC, Microsoft's, Dialpad Communications, GrandCentral Communications, ICONIQ Capital Locations: Raul Julia's Italian