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How Marc Benioff Built Salesforce on the Idea That Software Should Be a Service
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how Marc Benioff took the radical idea of delivering enterprise software over the internet and turned it into a multi-billion-dollar company. They trace the early days of Salesforce — from Benioff's departure from Oracle in 1999 to the creation of the 'no software' mantra that defined an era. The discussion covers the specific bet on cloud computing when the internet was still synonymous with dot-com busts, the controversial marketing that antagonized incumbents like Siebel, and the operational decisions that allowed Salesforce to scale…
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