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Salesforce’s Mike Kreaden on how to build a platform to drive growth

Intercom, Inc.

Knowing when it’s time to become a platform is a delicate thing, as Mike Kreaden , Managing Director of Salesforce Incubator, discovered. Making the jump to becoming a platform requires humility. And I remember Marc [Benioff] interviewing me, like he did every employee, and painting the vision for what the platform would be.

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It’s Not Just You: Trends Are Moving Faster Than Ever

Roy Madden

To put it in perspective, there have been 5,000 petabytes of information created from the dawn of civilization to 2003. Do you have the right tools in place? Is it a new irrigation system being tried in Venice? Rand Fishkin’s Collection on Inbound Marketing. Annie Cushing’s Collection on Data Analytics.

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“It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times” – Every CEO Ever | Tim Barker, DataSift | BoS Europe 2018

Business of Software Conference

In this cathartic talk from Business of Software Europe 2018, Tim talks about some of the lessons learned he learned during some very, very tricky days for DataSift. Tim Barker (CEO, DataSift) – “It Was The Best Of Times, It Was The Worst Of Times”: Every CEO Ever… from Business of Software Conference.