Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.

You need to have a beginner's mind to create bold innovation.

Multi-Tenancy is a requirement for a SaaS vendor to be successful

Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.

You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.

I’ve seen how important this concept is in business. To be truly successful, companies need to have a corporate mission that is bigger than making a profit. We try to follow that at salesforce.com, where we give 1% of our equity, 1% of our profits, and 1% of our employees’ time to the community. By integrating philanthropy into our business model our employees feel that they do much more than just work at our company. By sharing a common and important mission, we are united and focused, and have found a secret weapon that ensures we always win.

Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers.