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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner recounts Satya Nadella saying most applications are just interfaces on CRUD databases,</title>
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      <description>“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&#x27;s like, you know, that&#x27;s not true.” — Brad Gerstner, Khosla Ventures</description>
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      <title>Brad Gerstner: Gerstner notes Salesforce employee count grew from 19,000 in 2015 to 80,000, a 4x increase in s</title>
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      <description>“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.” — Brad Gerstner, All-In Podcast</description>
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      <title>Bill Gurley: Gurley explains why targeting sales instead of HR made Salesforce wildly more successful than the</title>
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      <description>“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.” — Bill Gurley, This Week in Startups</description>
      <pubDate>Fri, 07 Apr 2017 23:27:51 +0000</pubDate>
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