Queener: Salesforce Spent 60 Cents Per Dollar on Physical Servers in 2003
Brett Queener · Why Only “WTF” Products Can Survive Today with Brett Queener Partner at Bonfire Ventures · Oct 31, 2025 · at 2:40
Brett Queener, partner at Bonfire Ventures and early Salesforce executive (employee #70), explains how infrastructure costs have transformed from physical data centers to commoditized cloud and AI services.
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“In 2003, when I was working at salesforce.com, we took 60 cents of every dollar that we collect from customers and we bought servers and put them in our own data centers.”
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