Sramana Mitra: What about geography? Salesforce is an international company with widespread adoption. But there are some markets that have not adopted Salesforce.com yet. What are some of your thoughts about those large emerging markets? Alex Dayton: I think there’s what I would recommend to Salesforce and what I would recommend to an entrepreneur to
Sramana Mitra: Right now you’re talking to thousands of entrepreneurs. You have the ears of thousands of entrepreneurs. Many of them are working on cloud startups and social startups, things that are very much in your ecosystem. What guidance can you provide for them in terms of what you are looking for? Where do you
SM: Right. Given that that’s what’s going on in the world, how do decide what to acquire, what to bring in to Salesforce.com? AD: Salesforce is, obviously, not an early stage company. We are a $3 billion company today. We’ve hundreds of thousands of customers, pretty much of all sizes. My position at Salesforce is
We’ve talked a lot about Salesforce.com on this blog. Those of you who follow it know that I talked to CTA Marc Ferrentino in July 2011 for my Thought Leaders in Cloud Computing series. Once a company that focused primarily on facilitating customer relationship management for its clients, Salseforce has started branching out into platform