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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry
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Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry

by Marc Benioff, Carlye Adler
October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 45m
English
Jossey-Bass
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About the Authors

Marc Benioff is chairman and CEO of salesforce.com (NYSE: CRM), which he founded in 1999. Under Benioff's direction, salesforce.com has grown from a groundbreaking idea to the leader in enterprise cloud computing.

For its revolutionary approach, salesforce.com has received a Wall Street Journal Technology Innovation Award, been lauded as one of BusinessWeek's Top 100 Most Innovative Companies, named No. 7 on The Wired 40, and selected in 2007 and 2008 as a Top Ten Disrupter by Forbes. Benioff has been widely recognized for pioneering innovation with honors such as the 2007 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year and the SDForum Visionary Award, and has been ranked on the Top 100 Most Influential People in IT survey by eWeek ...

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