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How Marc Benioff’s Vision for Cloud-Based Service Lifted Up the Innovations of over 3,000 Entrepreneurs

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Investors Business Daily put it best by saying, “ he [Benioff] also revolutionized the way software is delivered. By Salesforce’s own account, in the year 2000, the company hired “actors to stage a mock protest outside a Siebel Systems conference. “The End of Software” protest staged by Salesforce in 2000 1.

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The pain of a failed B2B sales call can be a great teacher.

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I don’t know the ages of the many successful B2B sales people, but I do have the ages below of some pretty savvy investors. And there is a big comparison to age, with B2B sales people and investors. For example, there are a number of great investors who are still going strong in their golden years.

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