Gerstner notes Salesforce employee count grew from 19,000 in 2015 to 80,000, a 4x increase in seven years.
“if you look at the employee count at Salesforce, in 2015 they had 19,000 employees. As of last year they had 80,000. In seven years they four x the number of employees.”
Gerstner recounts Satya Nadella saying most applications are just interfaces on CRUD databases, which Benioff disputed.
“When Satya came on our pod and he said that, you know, that at the end of the day, most applications are just consumer interfaces sitting on top of a CRUD database and, you know, Mark Benioff calls me and he's like, you know, that's not true.”