Benioff: Sequoia and USVP rejected Salesforce three times in 1999
Marc Benioff · a16z Podcast | Where the Growth in Cloud and Enterprise Software Really Is (with Marc Benioff) · Jan 2, 2019 · at 6:13
Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff recounts the company's early fundraising efforts in 1999 during an interview with Andreessen Horowitz co-founder Marc Andreessen.
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“No venture capitalist would give us money. We raised all the money privately. I was thrown out of, you know, Sequoia three times, US venture capital, three times.”
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