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Carr has even suggested that “utility-supplied” computing will have economic and social impacts as profound as the ones that took place one hundred years ago, when companies “stopped generating their own power with steam engines and dynamos and plugged into the newly built electric grid.”
“Frankly, Oracle hasn’t created anything great other than its database,” he said.
Larry believed that salesforce.com was the next big idea, and he invested $2 million in seed money and joined the board of directors.
There is a Japanese belief that business is temporal, whereas relationships are eternal.
Our current battle: we have to save the customer from Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP.
not sure how I managed to miss this book earlier! @Benioff is genius.
Companies must not only see innovation before it is obvious to the market but also have the courage to pursue that innovation years before it’s accepted, or even understood.
BusinessWeek called it the “eBay for business software,” and Forbes described it as the “iTunes of business software.” AppExchange—much like eBay and iTunes—works
Finally, The End of Software is here.
Going Far? Take a Partner. Going Fast? Go Alone.
“Revenue is vanity; profit is sanity,”
Later, as we neared the $1 billion in revenue mark, we didn’t focus on $1 billion in revenue, but what we needed to do to get to $10 billion in revenue.
Make sure every new employee has lunch plans on his or her first
Seize the opportunity in front of you. Imagine. Invent. Disrupt. Do good. I know that you must be passionate, unreasonable, and a little bit crazy to follow your own ideas and do things differently. But it’s worth it. Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
