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I think the legacy is really the company that we built. That's what makes me happy. I'm a very simple person, so that's all I really need.
Parker Harris
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started.
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility.
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Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.
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My favourite moments at Dreamforce are when people come up and thank me randomly. It's a selfish time for me, as I get lots of positive feedback.
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs.
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Wearable technology is not just for consumers. It creates a tremendous opportunity for businesses, too.
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Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.
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I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.
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I grew up in North Carolina. My father was a salesperson; he sold textiles.
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