Category Archives: Bret Taylor

Salesforce reaches Net Zero energy usage, announces updates to Sustainability Cloud

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Salesforce has often preached about responsible capitalism, and today at Dreamforce, the company’s annual customer extravaganza, it announced a notable achievement in the battle against global climate change. The company said that it has achieved effective Net Zero energy usage across its entire value chain with 100% renewable energy, while purchasing carbon offsets when that’s […] Continue reading Salesforce reaches Net Zero energy usage, announces updates to Sustainability Cloud→

Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations

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Slack has been talking about expanding beyond text-based messaging for some time. Today at Dreamforce, the Salesforce customer conference taking place this week, it announced Clips, a way to leave short video messages that people can watch at their leisure. Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield sees Clips as a way to communicate with colleagues when a […] Continue reading Slack releases Clips video tool, announces 16 Salesforce integrations→

Could Marc Benioff be the next CEO to move to executive chairman?

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Last month Jeff Bezos announced he would step down as CEO of Amazon later this year, moving into the executive chairman role, while passing the baton to AWS CEO Andy Jassy. Could Marc Benioff, co-founder, chairman and CEO at Salesforce be the next big-name executive to make a similar move? A Reuter’s story published on […] Continue reading Could Marc Benioff be the next CEO to move to executive chairman?→

Salesforce has built a deep bench of executive talent via acquisition

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When Salesforce acquired Quip in 2016 for $750 million, it gained CEO and co-founder Bret Taylor as part of the deal. Taylor has since risen quickly through the ranks of the software giant to become president and COO, second in command behind CEO Marc Benioff. Taylor’s experience shows that startup founders can sometimes play a […] Continue reading Salesforce has built a deep bench of executive talent via acquisition→

Why Slack and Salesforce execs think they’re better together

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When Salesforce bought Slack earlier this week for $27.7 billion, it was in some ways the end of a startup fairytale. Slack was the living embodiment of the Silicon Valley startup success fantasy. It started as a pivot from a game company, of all things. It raised $1.4 billion, went from zero to a $7 […] Continue reading Why Slack and Salesforce execs think they’re better together→

Everyone has an opinion on the $27.7B Slack acquisition

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When the Salesforce-Slack deal was officially announced on Tuesday afternoon, and the number appeared, it was kind of hard to believe. Salesforce had shelled out more than $27 billion to buy Slack and bring it into the Salesforce family of products. The company sees a key missing piece in Slack, and that could explain why […] Continue reading Everyone has an opinion on the $27.7B Slack acquisition→

With Hyperforce, Salesforce lets you move your data to any public cloud

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For much of its existence, Salesforce was a cloud service on its own with its own cloud resources available for its customers, but as the company and cloud computing in general has evolved, Salesforce has moved some of its workloads to other clouds like AWS, Azure and Google. Now, it wants to allow customers to […] Continue reading With Hyperforce, Salesforce lets you move your data to any public cloud→

Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic

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Customer experience and digital transformation are two terms we’ve been hearing about for years, but have often remained nebulous in many organizations — something to aspire to perhaps, but not take completely seriously. Yet the pandemic has been a forcing event for both concepts, thrusting the ideas front and center. Suddenly startups that help with […] Continue reading Customer experience and digital transformation concepts are merging during the pandemic→

How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule

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Salesforce launched in 1999, one of the early adherents to what would eventually be called SaaS and cloud computing. On Tuesday, the company reached a huge milestone when it surpassed $5 billion in revenue, putting the SaaS giant on a $20 billion run rate for the first time. Salesforce revenue has been on a firm […] Continue reading How Salesforce beat its own target to reach $20B run rate ahead of schedule→

SaaS earnings rise as pandemic pushes companies more rapidly to the cloud

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As the pandemic surged and companies moved from offices to working at home, they needed tools to ensure the continuity of their business operations. SaaS companies have always been focused on allowing work from anywhere there’s access to a computer and internet connection, and while the economy is reeling from COVID-19 fallout, modern software companies […] Continue reading SaaS earnings rise as pandemic pushes companies more rapidly to the cloud→