June 2019
Beginner
256 pages
4h 47m
English
Content preview from Thank You For Disrupting
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
CHAPTER 20MARC BENIOFF AND SUZANNE DIBIANCA
ON SCALING UP PHILANTHROPY
When new employees arrive at Salesforce, they are shown their desk, given a computer, and fed some information about the daily life of the company. Then, after barely an hour, Salesforce sends them out to do a day of volunteering at a school, hospital, or homeless shelter. The company makes it immediately clear how much social purpose is at the heart of its activities. For Salesforce, it is a driving principle.
Salesforce is one of the fastest-growing enterprise software companies in the world. The leading provider of cloud-based customer relationship management software, Salesforce truly fueled the explosion of software as a service.
A Native Philanthropist
From the very beginning, when Salesforce employed only a few people in a San Francisco apartment, the idea of giving back was integrated into its business model. As then, it is based on three pillars, two of a commercial order, one charitable. First, the company decided to give free access to part of its software on the Internet, which was a completely new concept in 1999. Second, using another approach unprecedented at the time, Salesforce commercialized its software on a monthly subscription basis. It was the beginning of a period in the business-to-business segment, in which usage has taken precedence over ownership. Finally, in a third innovation, the company developed a new philanthropic model, which is simple, engaging, and capable of lasting ...
Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Read now
Unlock full access
More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly
O’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.Julian F.
I wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.Addison B.
I’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.Amir M.
I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.