Salesforce

“It turned out that if we hadn't done that deal, I think, like, I haven't talked about this publicly either, I think we would have had a hard time as a business.”

“We had, I don't, I've never told this story publicly, but we had a term sheet from Google There was a hundred million dollars more than Salesforce.”

“As far as I know, this is the only time in the Fortune 500 that anyone has gone directly from the chief legal officer role to the chief financial officer role.”

“And her advice to me was, find what is going to give you the most credibility on the job and focus on that.”

“We did a very deep study, and we found out, no surprise really at the end, that there was a discrepancy, and we fixed it. But one of the things we learned in that is that you can't do that once. So we ran the study again the next year, and sure enough, we also…”

“It's hundreds of millions of dollars that have gone out, millions of employee hours, and something like 70,000 nonprofits running on the Salesforce system.”