Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry Free Audiobook Download by Marc Benioff,Carlye Adler

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry is a must read for any leader or entrepreneur in the sales, marketing, and customer service industry. This book starts as an exploration into the company's origin story but quickly transitions into the new information revolution and how it will shape the future industry. The main takeaway from this book is that ideas can be adapted and turned into billion dollar companies without losing your original idea.

From Marc Benioff and Carlye Adler's book "Behind the Cloud" we learn that the idea for Salesforce.com was born on a visit to Tokyo in 1995 when Marc Benioff, his wife, and Juergen Schmidhuber met. After this meeting, Marc called Jim Clark to build their software product. Upon its release in 1999, Salesforce.com became a smash success and by 2002 had 650 employees. The company went public in 2004 and began trading on NASDAQ at $13 per share. It has since risen to over $60 billion in market capitalization for its CRM applications alone.

The company was formed by Marc Benioff and David Sacks, who knew the secret to building a successful business was to earn customers’ trust and loyalty. With their concept of the “Cloud”, Salesforce changed the game for all businesses, becoming a billion-dollar company in just 3 years.

Behind the Cloud: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company-and Revolutionized an Industry by Marc Benioff Carlye Adler audiobook download is a book about the founding and early years of the company that became the leading cloud computing platform for business.

Marc Benioff, now the CEO of Salesforce, does not seem like the steely-eyed entrepreneur who would go on to revolutionize the business world. He is egalitarian, humble and self-deprecating. But Benioff has always been driven-born in a refugee camp outside Tel Aviv to working class parents, he saw his first computer by age 3.

So what really happened when Marc Benioff and his associates sold their app to the world for a billion dollars? This audiobook by Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, tells the story of how the company from the idea to billion-dollar company in just under a decade.