Dreamforce 2013: 5 Attendee Reactions to Salesforce CEO Keynote
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff addressed more than 135,000 Dreamforce 2013 attendees on Tuesday to touch upon the company's philanthropic mission to the world, as well as the CRM company's new customer platform. But how did some of the attendees react?
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff addressed more than 135,000 Dreamforce 2013 attendees on Tuesday, talking about the company’s philanthropic mission to the world, as well as the CRM company’s new Salesforce1 Customer Platform.
What exactly was going through some of the minds of those attending the Benioff keynote session? Scroll through our slideshow to find out.
“Some of the most impacting innovation I have seen. I broke my brain with ideas overload today.”
— Evolve Leadership Executive Consultant Tim Brewer
“Salesforce1 is great recognition of how business will be increasingly transacted at the mobile edge. Good Technology is pleased to partner with Salesforce, and through our joint efforts help our mutual customers develop innovative mobile workflows using Good, Salesforce and our mutual partner apps, such as DocuSign.”
— Good Technology CMO Lynn Lucas
“Benioff spoke a great deal about the world of connected things and the vision of living in a truly connected world is fascinating, especially when we start to think of all the ways that we can better serve our customers. Customers today have various apps that speak to each other so we’re already moving in the direction of connected things. Developers creating apps in the cloud will have to increasingly consider the customer experience and how these new apps can easily connect.”
— Backupify CEO Rob May
“Marc Benioff is an absolute fundamental genius. His genius comes in one of the most broadest array of conceptual thinking — not about how to run a company or build a business, but how to invent an entire industry. It puts him in a completely different category. He has built an ecosystem where other companies are building big businesses on the platform that he has established. Our goal is to do the same.
“He has changed the world, not just in industry ecosystems, and has changed it in powerful, meaningful ways. When you’re touching the world at that level, it’s very motivating and genuine. Our company has completely embraced what they’re doing with our Continuum Veterans Foundation.”
— Continuum CEO Michael George
“Apttus quote-to-cash solutions are designed to make the quoting and contracting process easier for sales teams and their customers. Salesforce1 announced by Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce keynote is exciting as it will allow Apttus applications to be enabled on any device, accelerating our customers’ transformation into customer companies.”
— Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe
“Apttus quote-to-cash solutions are designed to make the quoting and contracting process easier for sales teams and their customers. Salesforce1 announced by Marc Benioff at the Dreamforce keynote is exciting as it will allow Apttus applications to be enabled on any device, accelerating our customers’ transformation into customer companies.”
— Apttus CEO Kirk Krappe
Note to Dreamforce 2013 attendees: If you have your own opinion of Benioff's keynote address, feel free to tweet Talkin' Cloud Associate Editor CJ Arlotta @cjarlotta and be sure to include the Dreamforce 2013 hashtag: #DF13.
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