As the software giant celebrated its 25th anniversary, Parker Harris, CTO of its Slack business, talked about Salesforce’s origins and its future
Salesforce might have come a long way from when it launched in a San Francisco apartment near Coit Tower 25 years ago, but Parker Harris says he’s as excited today about the possibilities ahead for the company as he was then.
Of course not. We did have a vision of building something that could serve all companies of all sizes. But we weren’t thinking that far ahead. No, we didn’t really worry at all, because we knew that there was talent in The City that was already commuting. I saw early inklings, even before Salesforce, of really interesting, small companies with technology people . And I think there were a lot of people like me that were commuting that would love to be part of a San Francisco-based technology company.
And then it was just these key moments of bigger customers. So SunTrust Bank in the Southeast, this big bank, was a big step up for us. ADP was another customer that was a big leap for us in terms of scale. Merrill Lynch private-wealth bankers was another big step. So we kept growing with the size of customers.
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