Who is on this subjectordered by the date of their first quote here
2 of 2 lanes rest on fewer than 5 quotes and are marked thin. Offsets are days from the middle first-quote date, 7 Apr 2017 — a date, and nothing else. It is not a claim about who reached a view first.
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Bill Gurley
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7 Apr 2017 – 7 Apr 2017
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Brad Gerstner
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3 Mar 2023 – 10 Sep 2025
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Bill Gurley
Gurley explains why targeting sales instead of HR made Salesforce wildly more successful than their HR SaaS company.
“the sales executive has a green light on any purchase in a company. The HR executive does not. They had a product where you could put it on a credit card.”
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Brad Gerstner
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.”
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Brad Gerstner
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.”
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