I Spent 30 Days Studying A Programmer Who Built a $230 Billion Company After Quitting His 9–5 — Here’re His Weird Rules To Grow A Startup

Until 1999, Marc Benioff had been with Oracle for more than 10 years. He had a lucrative salary and addictive stock options. But since 1996, he wanted to do something of his own. For the last 3 years, he has been thinking about getting out of corporate life. A sabbatical from work and a trip to India helped him gain mental clarity. He realized that he wanted to build a business through which he could give back to the world. In 1999, he started his company Salesforce.com. By 2009, he drove Salesforce’s revenue to more than $1 billion. In the past, I’ve spent over 30 days exploring his journey to build Salesforce. Here are five of his weird strategies for growing a startup. <h1>1. You need to position yourself as a visionary</h1> Programmers starting their company for the first time have wrong assumptions about customers. They think that customers only want to buy from established brands. But this is not true. <a href="https://levelup.gitconnected.com/i-spent-30-days-studying-a-programmer-who-built-a-230-billion-company-after-quitting-his-9-5-8ff4ebbe0346">Learn More</a>