October 2009
Intermediate to advanced
304 pages
5h 45m
English
book
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
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5.2. Play #53: Invest in the Long Term with a Prototype That Sets a Strong Foundation
In the earliest days of salesforce.com, our small team believed that our idea could work, but we had no real sense of how far we could take it. How much could we scale the service? How many users could we have on the system? How could we make it infinite?
Our philosophy was to write code that lasted for the long haul. Practically on day one, Parker, Dave, and Frank developed their own guiding principles about the system: "Do it fast, simple, and right the first time (and did we mention fast?)." They wrote these "laws" on a white board, and they stuck. They forced us to create code that was simple and efficient, and this is what ultimately gave us the ability ...
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