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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
- Computers
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out.
- Cassette
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my school had some of the first Apple IIs in North Carolina. I remember, when I first started using them, we were using a cassette tape to store programs because we didn't have floppy disk drives.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
- Cloud
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
- Internet
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like?
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
- Ego
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still believe heavily that we have to be careful about having this ego and hubris as a successful corporation, that we should do it all. Because then I think we start to fail our customers and we're too focused on taking over the world.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many people have said we just need to add more products. Look at Oracle, look at SAP. Add ERP and inventory or compensation. Add all this stuff. What we realized is we're the customer company. We're the front office solution, and our customers would be really upset if we just added a whole bunch of stuff and lost focus.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
- Business Leaders
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- Nov 07, 2020
All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
Diving into data has never been more critical for businesses in order to make fast, accurate decisions about customer behaviors and needs and drive holistic business knowledge.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that.
- Phone
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
- Because
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- Nov 07, 2020
We actually went public partly because we wanted companies to realise we were not going away.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.
- Focus
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- Nov 07, 2020
We're paying a lot of attention to the iPad. But we're expanding that to a tablet focus.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020