Perspective Type: Insights

Q&A with Propel Founder & CEO Jimmy Chen

A Q&A with Jimmy Chen, founder and CEO of Propel, and Enki Toto, Investor at Salesforce Ventures Impact Fund

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by Enki Toto

How Oyster HR Drives Success by Leading With Impact 

What happens when two business leaders motivated by providing opportunities for others, come together to create a company? An industry-leading technology business, centering impact is born.

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by Enki Toto

Forget Leadership Tips: Stay True to You

Recap of Uplift, a leadership event to support female-identifying and non-binary leaders.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Cloud 100 Values

The most successful cloud companies in the world lead with purpose and align their values with all their stakeholders. On this year’s Cloud 100 list, we are proud to see so many top-performing companies that are intentional about their impact on their customers, their employees and the world, and are leading the way toward a more equitable future.

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by Salesforce Ventures
Leading in a Downturn

CEO Survival Guide: Cloud 100 CEO’s on Leading in a Downturn

Cloud 100 leaders share their stories from the trenches as they offer both strategic and tactical advice to founders on building enduring businesses.

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by Salesforce Ventures

A Seemingly Endless Appetite for the Cloud

Today, the shift to the cloud and the adoption of software is not only strategic but absolutely mission-critical.

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by Alex Kayyal

Always Be Connecting: Five Lessons on Building Sales Teams

Five lessons on building high-performance sales teams from Michael Corr, AVP of Sales at Salesforce.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Metrics Matter: Three Ways to Leverage Impact Metrics to Drive Business Value

Executives from FutureFuel, Sama, and ConsejoSano share how they and other companies can harness the power and potential of impact measurement.

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by Claudine Emeott

Hindsight in 2020: The Unexpected Urgency of Adopting Cloud Technology

Looking back on a watershed year for enterprise technology companies that enable digital transformation, and considering what the future might hold.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Carry Your Own Torch — and Then Light the Way for Others

Navigating the workplace as a manager is challenging as it is, and even more so in a year where we all find ourselves interacting through screens. The complexity of that experience is even further compounded when you don’t look like, or have a similar background to colleagues or others in the industry. We created the

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by Salesforce Ventures

Renewed Optimism in Enterprise Tech: The Latest Enterprise Technology Pulse Survey

This year, with so many things being upended, disrupted, and redefined, cloud companies are answering the call for accelerated digital transformation.

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by Salesforce Ventures

Behind the Scenes of Cloud 100: Lessons Learned for Virtual Events

Like many planners and agencies over the last six months, our team has learned so much about producing, marketing, and hosting virtual events. Invites, hosting options, production standards, and best practices have evolved so much since we made the quick pivot in March. Not to mention, audiences are more distracted than ever before, and the

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by Trista Myers