Salesforce, every mention
21 scenes (2016), the whole family · ← back to Salesforce
every year 2016 anyone Harry Stebbings 511Jason Lemkin 180Marc Benioff 63Rory O'Driscoll 55Ariel Cohen 20Todd McKinnon 16Saam Motamedi 16Richard Socher 14Parker Conrad 14Jesse Zhang 12
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Salesforce comes up
20VC: Learnings From Mary Meeker & Larry Summers, Missing Out On Uber & The Changing World of VC with Canvas Partner, Rebecca Lynn
- ▶ 0:38 Harry Stebbings She's also led investments in the likes of Check, acquired by Intuit, Relate IQ, acquired by Salesforce, Proximity, Practice Fusion, and many more incredible companies. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:59 Harry Stebbings It was tough to exactly remember which one to thank, but let's thank Matt Garrett at Salesforce for the intro, but thank you so much for joining me today, Rebecca.
- ▶ 32:38 Harry Stebbings Also, a massive hand to Matt Garrett at Salesforce Ventures for the intro to Rebecca, without which the show would not have been possible.
20VC: Lessons Learnt From Marc Benioff & Selling To Salesforce For $2.7bn, What Product Market Fit Really Looks Like & Why Pricing Is Startup's Biggest Problem with Scott Dorsey, Managing Partner @ HighAlpha
- ▶ 0:54 Harry Stebbings Scott was a successful entrepreneur who co-founded ExactTarget and led the company from startup to global marketing software leader, and ExactTarget went public on the New York Stock Exchange in March, 20 12, and sold to Salesforce.com in… 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:56 Scott Dorsey And then in July of 2013, we were acquired by Salesforce. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:05 Scott Dorsey Uh, we had about 2000 employees all over the world at the time, and we were able to really step in and assume leadership of the marketing cloud. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:29 Harry Stebbings And I do, I do have to start pre-talking about Salesforce and exact target there.
- ▶ 6:41 Harry Stebbings And I do want to discuss then the acquisition by Salesforce. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:45 Scott Dorsey And that's really where we channeled all of our discussion around the three top priorities for all the marketing cloud.
- ▶ 8:38 Scott Dorsey You know, after 13 years of building ExactTarget, it really felt like, you know, the right time for me to step aside, give others an opportunity to step up within the marketing cloud and lead the future of the company, which is great, and…
- ▶ 29:50 Scott Dorsey We, we feel so fortunate to have had the experience at exact target and Salesforce and want to find new ways to help people.
20VC: Greenfield Opportunities For Machine Learning, Why Massive Corporates Finally See It's Potential & Why VC's Investment Decision Making Process Needs To Change with James Cham, Partner @ Bloomberg Beta
- ▶ 6:54 Harry Stebbings And why is it now in the last probably 18 months, you probably agree with me in saying, why is it that everyone from kind of CEOs in Detroit to head of Salesforce is interested in machine learning?
- ▶ 12:08 James Cham Salesforce or SaaS, one of the things they talked a lot about was this idea of multi-tenancy.
20VC: How You Can Learn To Be A Great Business Leader & Why All Successful Business Must Be Loved or Needed with Moisey Uretsky, Founder @ Digital Ocean
- ▶ 27:30 Moisey Uretsky But the reality is, is that, you know, outside of those superstar unicorn companies, there's also a lot of companies like Salesforce, right? 3 times in the scene
20VC: Floodgate's Mike Maples on What Makes Category Kings, What Most Venture Funds Do Wrong When Hiring & 'The Dance Of Product Market Fit'
- ▶ 22:10 Mike Maples And, and, you know, Salesforce did that for cloud computing in the early days, right?
20VC: Index's Ilya Fushman on The Key Lessons From Scaling Dropbox To 400m Users, Is Excessive Amounts Of Capital Driving Valuations Too High In The Valley & Why Venture Is Like Being On A Swim Team Not A Soccer Team
- ▶ 15:43 Ilya Fushman I had experience with a problem that they were going after, uh, from the Dropbox days because we had this challenge of communicating effectively with our customers who were spread across, um, different communication methods, protocols…
20VC: How To Win The Strategic Process Of Fundraising and Optimising Co-Founder Relationships and Break Ups with Kathryn Minshew, Founder & CEO @ The Muse
- ▶ 1:04 Harry Stebbings They also integrate with apps you already use to run your business, like Google Sheets, Xero, Salesforce, Stripe, and more.
- ▶ 29:29 Harry Stebbings They also integrate with apps you already use to run your business, like Google Sheets, QuickBooks, Salesforce, Stripe, and more.
20VC: X.ai's Dennis Mortensen on Why There Is No Incumbency Advantage in Artificial Intelligence
- ▶ 20:47 Dennis Mortensen Dropbox, or a Salesforce, or something similar.
20VC: The Rise Of The Celebrity VC & The Pros and Cons Of Staying Private with Logan Bartlett @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 15:05 Logan Bartlett Um, so I go back and read the, you know, the story of eBay, uh, the story of, there's a book about the PayPal wars is the name of the book, and understanding how PayPal got to where they were, um, understanding the story of Amazon,…
20VC: The Best Determinant Of Product Market Fit & Why Prior Experience Is Not Required For Founder Success with Neeraj Agrawal, General Partner @ Battery Ventures
- ▶ 21:59 Neeraj Agrawal I, I don't know if we really had a shot at this, but we had conversations with Salesforce, um, when I first started Battery in 2000, I think it was, we had a conversation in 2001 or two. 2 times in the scene