Citeworld – Salesforce launched 15 years ago. With annual revenues expected at more than $5 billion this year, it is hard to remember those days when Salesforce was a scrappy start up, trying to sell enterprise customers on the benefits of the multi-tenant software-as-a-service model. That battle is long over, and since then Salesforce has gone on to introduce a number of other new innovations that were also promptly snapped up with the rest of the industry. Chatter comes to mind; so does its latest product, Community Cloud.
Less has been said, though, about the generation of new tech executives cultivated by Salesforce. In many ways the company has become a de facto training ground in this industry — much like Oracle was in the 1990s.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, of course, is an Oracle alum so it shouldn’t be surprising that he is repeating history. But while the careers of Salesforce’s executive progeny are interesting to follow, what is truly telling is what they have gone on to do since their stints at the company.
We talked to several of them. Here’s what they told us.
