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Startup Story of Salesforce

  Salesforce began in a small apartment in Telegraph Hill in San Francisco. Marc Benioff decided to leave a lucrative sales career at Oracle in order to pursue a vision. Marc Benioff wanted to get out of the routine job and wanted to pursue his dream. He left Oracle to start with a cloud based CRM software “Salesforce” which was first of its kind during the time when software was delivered only through local installation processes. Salesforce was the first software solution to be delivered over the browser through a multitenant cloud infrastructure. Soon Salesforce came to notice as Benioff hired paid actors to display “Anti-software” movement. This gained attention but none thought that this would take upon giant software companies. There were challenges to be overcome in terms of data security over the browser, and Benioff had to build trust that their data would be safe with Salesforce. Back then CRM softwares turned complicated because of heavy features provided by software com...