Dan Darcy & Woodson Martin 56 min

The Value of a Being a Customer Hero


Meet Woodson Martin, Executive Vice President and General Manager of AppExchange for Salesforce.



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- Welcome to Inside the Ojana.

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I'm Dan Darcy, Chief Customer Officer at Qualified.

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And today I'm joined by my friend, Woodson Martin.

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Woodson, how are you?

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- I'm doing great, Dan.

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- And where are you filming from today?

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- Today I'm in our San Francisco office.

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We call the Salesforce Tower.

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- Awesome.

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So I wanna dive right into our first segment, Ojana Origins.

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So going back to 2005, tell me how you discovered Salesforce.

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- Yeah, we have to go back even further.

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I was a customer at a company called Business Objects,

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a software company, later required by SAP,

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but I was running worldwide field operations

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for business objects and brought Salesforce in

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as a CRM to replace what was not working

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as we were trying to run an old van Tiv CRM system

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on premise at Business Objects

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to run our Asia Pacific business.

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And as we were growing, especially in Japan,

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we needed very different technology.

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The big driver for us was like,

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we needed something that would actually recognize

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the double byte characters to spell out the names

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of the customers.

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And so we had our old archaic van Tiv system

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would work, we had to shop for something new.

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That's how I found Salesforce in the first place.

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- So in 2002, what was your experience with Salesforce

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at that time?

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Just obviously it was Salesforce automation back then.

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How was it as a customer?

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- Yeah, well, it was interesting

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because we were running Salesforce in Asia Pacific

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and we were running this van Tiv

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archaic van Tiv system everywhere else.

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And we had a quarterly business review at one point.

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I think it was actually a Q1 review

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and we were looking back on the prior year

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and we had our GM of the Asia Pacific business standup

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and he'd had a record performance.

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And his,

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and at one point Bernard Liatto, who is the CEO,

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turned to him and asked him and said, how'd you do it?

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And he's like, well, it was all because of Salesforce.

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And so as the guy who had put Salesforce in, right?

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Like it was, I had signed the checks

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and brought Salesforce support.

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It was like the most validating moment of my career.

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And it was really, I told that story actually,

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I think at the very first dream force, Mark hosted

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the very first executive, some day,

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it was a dinner at the top of one of the hotels

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in San Francisco.

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And Mark made me get up and tell the story

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to every other customer in the room.

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That was my first.

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- Of course he does.

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And I mean, so you were basically quintessentially,

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you know, one of the early trailblazers, if you will,

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obviously the current nomenclature,

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but you were a customer hero back then.

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So that's awesome.

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So tell me how then did you take that

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and actually come to Salesforce as an employee?

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- Well, that same dinner I was telling you about,

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I was actually sitting with Mark and Ray Lane

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was there too for the real veterans of our industry.

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Remember Ray's from his role as COO of Oracle.

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And we had this great conversation over dinner

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about the future of the software business.

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And after dinner that night, I sent Mark and he,

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thank you email.

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And I said, by the way, you know, that was super motivating.

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I think I should probably work for Salesforce.

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And he replied back within like three minutes.

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It was like, can you start tomorrow?

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- What was your initial impression overall

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internally at Salesforce?

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- You know, I remember a time in my career

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where I thought all the smart people worked at headquarters

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and all the people out, you know, running around

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in the field where just couldn't understand

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really what we were doing.

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And I got to Salesforce and everywhere I turned,

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the people were really smart.

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You know, I, and it's so motivating, you know,

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to work with really smart people.

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And of course Salesforce had a passion then still does

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around customer success.

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And it was just the first thing I recognized

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is what a much more customer centric organization

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Salesforce was.

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You know, whether it is, you know, you get in the elevator

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back then in the landmark building, you know,

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with at any point in time, and you know,

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here comes Mark and his dog, Coa.

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And you know, the very first question he's going to ask you

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is like, what customer did you talk to today?

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And you know, what are you, and tell me about

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the customers you're working with

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and do everything that's always about the customers.

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- So what's in, look, I know you've had a long,

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incredible career at Salesforce.

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So this may be somewhat of a tougher question,

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but I want you to brag a little because

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of just the incredible success

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and the different roles you've taken on at Salesforce.

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What would you say is the biggest success you've had,

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or one of your most proud moments thus far?

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- I think the most fun job I ever had

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before the one I have now, which is truly awesome job,

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was leading the marketing team in EMBA.

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Based out of London for 2010 to 2000,

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or 2007 to 2010.

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So that was a amazing time for Salesforce.

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You know, we had had an operation in Europe for many years,

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but we went from a couple dozen people

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to thousands of people in that time in Europe.

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And from a real concentration of customers in the UK,

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and a little bit of Ireland,

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and just a teeny bit on the continent,

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to really becoming a standard in the enterprise

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for large customers across a wide swath of Western Europe.

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It was an amazing, fast-paced, crazy, challenging time.

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I've never traveled so much, of course.

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Fortunately, the flights were shorter,

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but it was an amazing and exciting time.

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And I think the team that we built there,

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I think that the progress that we made,

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and really penetrating that market,

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which was super skeptical when I got there,

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about the cloud and SaaS.

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And really seeing that turn,

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and now it's just, it fills me with enormous pride,

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every time now that I go to Europe,

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or meet with European customers.

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I spent two hours with one of our largest customers

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in Europe this morning,

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and it just gives me enormous pride

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how much we changed things there in that time.

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And it was great people.

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Rob Acker, of course.

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Carl Schachter made reappearance in that story,

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but people like Lindsey Armstrong,

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and some of these characters who really helped us

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pull that off, just amazing people to work with

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and work I'm really proud of.

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- Yeah, I mean, I was fortunate enough to work with you

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when you were CMO in EMEA,

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and that was one of the very first times that,

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we tested Dreamforce Europe.

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Remember at the bar.

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- Yes, 2008.

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- Yes.

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- At the bar at the center in London.

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- At the bar at the center in London,

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and back then, I mean, for the listeners

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and the viewers out there, internet was not as

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free-flowing as it is today,

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where it's pretty much ubiquitous everywhere.

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And I remember, we had troubles with Wi-Fi

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during the event conference,

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and we were like, "Oh my gosh,

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"what happens if the Wi-Fi goes out?"

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That means the cloud is not going to be working, you know?

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But those were the stresses of way back in the day.

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- Oh yeah, we would have backup demos

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that were just entirely cached locally,

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so that if the internet went out, it would still work.

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They were live, but they were cached live,

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because that was actually a real risk.

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You'd lose internet and then all the keynote.

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- Yeah, and that was one of my favorite stories,

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was we gave an indication to Benioff to mark about,

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if the internet went out at some point,

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we would give a sign, and it was Jagger McConnell,

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who would give that sign on stage,

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and he would just walk off the stage.

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And it actually did happen,

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just for the viewers out there,

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and Mark goes, "Jagger, now click on this,

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"like that and change it back

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"to from Japanese to English, right?"

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- Right, yes.

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- "Let's go take a look."

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And then all of a sudden, he's like,

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"Jagger, where'd you go?"

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And everyone laughed.

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But thank God, by the time Jagger went back on stage,

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the internet was back up,

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and he clicked through and the demo worked.

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And so, those are some of those great behind the scenes

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that I love sharing with that.

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But that's just one example of just, you know--

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- It's more of a little drama backstage

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at the keynotes, for sure.

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And you certainly had plenty of that experience

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in your time.

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- Yeah.

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- Yeah.

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- Now, so what's it on the opposite side of the spectrum?

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You know, what would you say

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is your biggest lesson learned here at Salesforce?

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- I think probably the most important lesson

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that I've learned at Salesforce

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is really about the fundamentals of the game we're playing.

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You know, we're basically in enterprise software, right?

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Yes, we're doing it very differently

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than previous generations of technology have done.

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And we're basically enterprise software.

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And, you know, enterprise software is very different

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from a lot of other technology categories

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in that what we are selling fundamentally

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is transformation, it's change.

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And people don't buy Salesforce to do things

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the same way tomorrow that they did yesterday, right?

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They are buying Salesforce

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and it's true of other enterprise applications

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that companies invest in.

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They do it to affect change, to grow faster,

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to improve productivity, improve performance,

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improve customer experience,

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and change at an organizational level,

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of course you have to adopt software,

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but the change that required to achieve

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the transformational benefit really takes

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a level of executive commitment.

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And really, you know, obviously it depends on the size

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of the organization and the work you're doing,

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but board level commitment to change.

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And, you know, so many times in my career

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I've seen the, you know, excitement around the potential

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for transforming our industry,

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the enterprise software business

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into something that, you know, customers buy

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versus is being sold, right?

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And I think the thing that I have really learned

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is that because of this element of executive commitment

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towards transformational change

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that's a part of the value proposition of what we're doing,

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like that does not get achieved

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without a really strategic engagement

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in it through a selling motion

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between organizations, right?

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Like we, what we are doing is so fundamentally

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transformative for our customers

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that we have to invest in those kinds of relationships

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to develop and get to the executive suites

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and understand the problems that they're trying to solve

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and the transformations they're trying to lead

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and then truly partner with them to do it.

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And that informs almost every decision that we make,

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including the decisions that we make about the product,

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what products that we build

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and what features to prioritize

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and how we need to accomplish that

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because it is, it's like the fundamental thing.

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- If you could go back to your early days at Salesforce,

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you know, you've been there now, you know,

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almost close to 20 years,

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what advice would you give yourself?

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- Spend more time with customers.

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It's kind of the advice I give

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to every new product manager who joins at Salesforce

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and is like looking for a mentor or whatever,

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or anybody I hire,

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I have just hired some new executives on my team

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and I've said, you know, for the first 30 days,

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I want you to just go talk to customers and partners,

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just like go learn as much as you can

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from the cold face, right, of our business.

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And I think, especially as companies get bigger,

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it's easy to spend all your time in internal meetings

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and, you know, preparing for them

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and pouring all your energy into the pixel perfect deck.

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You know, you know, this story for the internal consumption

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and I think some of that's really important

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but like if you're sacrificing connection

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with customers in the market,

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to do that eventually you become irrelevant.

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- That's a really sage advice

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and you know, as being a customer of yours, Woodson,

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I would say you have been completely open

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and have listened to all of our, you know,

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feedback and concerns.

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So it is something that's very true that you live by

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and I think that's incredibly sage advice

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to everyone that's out there.

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So I wanna ask you about the meaning of O'Hanna

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and I ask this of all my guests because I feel like

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when I think about this, everyone describes it differently

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but I'm curious, how would you describe the O'Hanna

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and what does it mean to you?

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- I mean, I'm a literalist.

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I would basically say it's the Salesforce family.

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You know, to me that family includes,

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of course, the people who work here

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but it includes our customers and our partners

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and the people who are betting their careers

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on this ecosystem, which is now, you know,

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millions and millions of people.

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So it's a pretty big group

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and it is, I think of it as kind of a thing with rings, right?

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Like there's the very inner circle of the O'Hanna

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which is probably where we put the employees

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but there are some, you know, MVPs

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in the Salesforce ecosystem

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who I think fit right in there too, you know?

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And one thing that to me is so powerful

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about what we've somehow managed to create here

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is the transformational impact

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that discovering this ecosystem

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has had on so many individual lives, right?

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And I'm not even gonna say careers just like lives

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and I've had this amazing experience lately

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with a friend who's a refugee from,

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he's from Cameroon and he has been here in the US

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for a couple of years now

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and he, after he was released from immigration detention,

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he was determined to make himself successful

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and in the US and he did it on Trailhead.

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You know, he went and he learned

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and he got himself all the badges

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until he could get, scratch his way,

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into a role working for a nonprofit customer of Salesforce,

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doing some administrative work,

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got himself a gig with a consulting company,

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now he's a product manager

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and he's launched a brand new product

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which by the way, is aimed at helping

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other people who are refugees today,

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managing all their experience, legal process and so forth

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on the Salesforce technology platform.

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And I just think about the transformational power

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of that kind of thing for him as an individual,

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but for all the people who he's now able to help

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by virtue of this technology, the skills he's able to grow,

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the network he's able to build

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and the power of all these people working together.

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It's really awesome.

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- I mean, that's incredible.

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And I mean, that's also a huge thanks to you too, Woodson.

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I know you don't wanna like promote yourself here,

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but I'll do it on your behalf

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and I know you had a direct hand

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in helping drive that as well too from a refugee standpoint.

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You know, just for the listeners out there,

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I would love for you to plug, you know,

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that nonprofit that you have started and created

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to get that out there as well.

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- Yeah, so I can't claim to be a founder on that one

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that we've just described.

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That's Mobile Pathways, an amazing organization

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led by Jeff O'Brien and Bart Scapura,

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but they are Mobile Pathways,

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which is the platform behind the product

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I just described that my friend has been working on.

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His name is Jamal,

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is an incredible nonprofit themselves,

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leveraging technology from Salesforce,

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but from other technology vendors,

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they use tech from Twilio, they use tech from WhatsApp,

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they have a variety of tech they've stitched together

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to serve these immigrant communities

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and provide them with legal aid and assistance

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in a scalable way so that they can show up in court,

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best represent themselves in the immigration process

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and have a chance at a new life.

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And it's an incredible example of pro bono contribution

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by the O'Hanna, you know, to an important mission like this.

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I think there have been more than 40 Salesforce volunteers

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who've worked on the pro bono and the tech to build this out.

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And it's just a super powerful example

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of what the O'Hanna can do to have an impact in the world.

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- Yeah, I mean, that's incredible.

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I mean, you know, just, you know, when every time

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when people wanna know the meaning of O'Hanna,

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you know, this interview alone has already said

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two of the major ones, it's just like,

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get in front of the customer and become a force for good,

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right? And so that's awesome.

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Now, before we get into our next segment, Woodson,

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are there any special stories or O'Hanna moments

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like you just shared?

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That is a little behind the scenes

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that you would wanna share for everyone.

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Like what would be another good use case

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of an O'Hanna moment?

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- I've been involved in examples of individuals

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who might be Salesforce customers or partners

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or employees and I've seen this happen in all of these cases.

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Who've been impacted in some way by tragedy

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and seen the community rise to help

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in ways that are stunning and incredibly impactful.

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You know, somebody whose family was in trouble

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in a foreign country, in a conflict zone,

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where the Salesforce team rallied

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to drive an evacuation across borders

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into countries where we have no footprint,

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no customers, right?

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No partners, but really amazing

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allocation of resource to help solve individual,

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personal, you know, challenges.

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And it's just amazing to see the people come together

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to do this.

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And so without, it's not my story,

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without naming names there.

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I just wanna say I'm incredibly proud of that kind of thing.

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- So let's get into our next segment, What's Cooking?

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So Woodson, you are now the Executive Vice President

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and General Manager of the Salesforce App Exchange.

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I want you to talk a little bit about how you got

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to where you are now and what your journey has been like

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to get to that current role.

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- You know, the App Exchange is a marketplace,

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it's a product, right?

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We build software that helps our customers discover

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these applications in the marketplace.

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And it's got all the fun stuff.

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It's got AI and discovery and search and recommendations

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and all of the cool things.

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And it is, and it has live engagement, right?

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It has chat feature in the App Exchange,

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of course, powered by Qualified.

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So it's product, but of course,

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it's also the demand generation to get everybody there, right?

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To engage the trailblazers and find them

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wherever they are in their journey with Salesforce

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and bring them into the App Exchange

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and begin the journey of discovering

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the power of the ecosystem.

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And so there's a lot of marketing there,

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marketing to customers,

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marketing what's in the marketplace, right?

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Marketing to partners, we got to have partners join

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and build and develop a business in our marketplace.

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And then obviously to market with those partners

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to help them with the demand generation

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and to drive customer acquisition.

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And so it has a lot of marketing.

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And then, you know, there's a lot of complexity

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to the operations of this thing.

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There's a lot of transactions there.

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There on marketplace is full of innovations.

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Not our innovations work, right?

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Like sometimes the companies die, right?

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Behind these things.

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And that has to all be managed, right?

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Oh, how do we, how do we delist applications?

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How do we help customers who've used those applications

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and find alternatives?

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There's a lot of work involved in operating a marketplace

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in an ecosystem of the scope of the App Exchange.

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And you know, it's pretty big.

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It's 7,000 listings in the App Exchange today.

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There's more than 10 million installations

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in the history of it.

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It's grown a long way.

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You know, from the science project it started as when we,

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you know, really began that work back in 2005

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as a way to prove the value of the platform, you know?

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And it's had a lot of impact.

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Now, every customer uses something from the App Exchange,

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right?

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And many use way more.

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One customer I was talking to this morning

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using 20 plus applications from the App Exchange.

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So it's a big impact.

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And it's a lot of fun.

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- Yeah.

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And that's incredible just to hear the success

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that the App Exchange is continuing to deliver

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for the customers that are out there.

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You know, you could take this from either a product

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or a community interpretation,

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but with the Salesforce App Exchange,

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what challenges are you seeing now?

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And how are you applying what you learned,

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obviously through your careers at Salesforce

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to these challenges?

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And I know you just mentioned, you know,

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product marketing and operations.

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I know you're taking a lot of that.

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But what are you seeing?

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- Salesforce has also diversified a lot

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in our product portfolio since my first day is here in 2005.

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And, you know, the App Exchange,

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as a value proposition, the platform,

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the listings in the marketplace largely revolve

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around, you know, more of the original Salesforce products

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than the acquired ones.

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And so as we think about the potential

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and the future of the App Exchange,

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a lot of it is about extending this value proposition

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to the rest of the customer 360, you know,

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to the marketing cloud, the commerce cloud,

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milsoft, slack, tableau.

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And we, and I'm doing a lot of work on my team

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and with a lot of our product partners across the company

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doing a lot of work to say,

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how do we make this all work better together

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and bring these, the same ecosystem value proposition

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to the rest of Salesforce?

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So that's probably the other biggest chunk.

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And then there's just, you know, there's a lot of work.

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It's a lot of partner relationships,

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a lot of customer relationships

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and we have all the same, you know,

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anybody running a business, lots of customers.

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And lots of partners has a lot of work to do.

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But I love that, you know, I love that part of the job.

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I love the time I get to spend with customers

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and with partners, understanding their problems,

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working on solving them where I can,

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sharing expertise or, you know, best practice

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where that's the need, you know,

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and finding like the breakthrough insight

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that, you know, can take us to the next level.

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So what is next for the AppExchange

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and how are you thinking about shaping the future?

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- Well, this year is super exciting

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because we're basically re-releasing the AppExchange.

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So we did the homepage of the AppExchange

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completely revamped in March.

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And this year we're rolling out

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an entirely new experience of the AppExchange,

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both for customers to discover,

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evaluate solutions, but also for partners.

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So the entire experience of the partner

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in joining the partner program, listing apps on AppExchange,

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going through the security review process, et cetera,

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we're revamping entirely.

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That's just super exciting, bringing a fresh set of eyes

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to that and rethinking all of that

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from the user perspective and taking it to the next level.

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I'm very excited about that work.

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It's already starting to hit the street

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and there'll be much more coming this year.

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- Okay, so let's get into our final segment,

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future forecast.

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All right, what do you envision as the future

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of the Salesforce ecosystem?

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- I think Salesforce has been a tremendously influential

27:12

force for good in the world,

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the philanthropy, philanthropic mission for sure,

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but our engagement in cultural issues,

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our impact in terms of driving successful customer,

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our customer success, economic growth.

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I think there are so many great influences

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Salesforce is having in the world

27:36

and I see that only accelerating.

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And as, while there are certainly places

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where tech as an industry is challenged,

27:48

in terms of is it good or is it not good

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for the world and the society and everything else,

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I think Salesforce is in a very good place

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in that way.

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I think we are broadly perceived

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as a very positive influence in the universe.

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And now that's the one thing I'm super proud of.

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I mean, I think sales are gonna continue to grow.

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I think Salesforce is gonna continue to become,

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to offer more specific capabilities in more specific ways.

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So industries is an obvious example of a place

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where we've started to do that a lot,

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that will continue more and more industries.

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We'll be able to, with our scale,

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provide more effective specialization

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in domains like industries,

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but also for geographic markets and cultural market,

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markets that are different culturally.

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And I think this is one of the great benefits

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that comes with scale.

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So I think all of that's part of the future.

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- So speaking of that, for all the listeners

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and the viewers out there,

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what advice would you have for an aspiring leader?

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- I think as a leader,

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we need to always be asking ourselves,

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what do I want to learn?

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Frame our futures and our thinking about our futures

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and our asks about our futures in the context of learning.

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What do I want to learn next?

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Who can help me achieve that?

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What experiences could help me achieve that?

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Or become part of your next steps.

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But the discipline around really translating your ambitions

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for status, really into ambitions for learning.

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And so yes, you want to be a VP

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or a senior vice president or whatever.

29:43

Well, like what do you think it is you need to learn

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to do that job effectively?

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How do you think you can learn that?

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Who do you think you can learn that from?

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Those become the important questions

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to give you tangible work to do,

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to drive your own career,

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to drive your own impact in the world.

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- Yeah, that's awesome advice, Wurzen, thank you.

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Now, before letting you go,

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I want to have a little fun with a quick lightning round.

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Are you ready for this?

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- Yep, okay, let's do it.

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- What's your favorite Salesforce product?

30:18

- Slack.

30:21

And it wasn't two years ago.

30:26

Okay, classic or lightning?

30:27

- Lightning.

30:30

- Favorite Salesforce character?

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- Appy, of course.

30:36

- Of course.

30:37

Favorite brand of anything besides Salesforce

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or the AppExchange?

30:41

- This was hard for me.

30:44

The answer is Tesla.

30:45

And I feel conflicted about the answer,

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but that's the answer.

30:50

- Good answer.

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What secret skill that is not on the resume?

30:55

- I'm a builder, like carpentry, hammers and nails.

31:07

- That's awesome.

31:08

So you just won front row seats,

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front row seat tickets to your dream event.

31:13

What is it, and it can't be Dreamforce, so?

31:15

- It's the Warriors taking the national championship

31:20

in a week.

31:22

- Yes, yes, go dubs, go dubs.

31:25

All right, Woodson, well, this has been so much fun,

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but before I let you go,

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let the listeners know where they can find you,

31:30

and is there anything else you'd like to share

31:33

or anything to plug?

31:34

- I'm @Woodson_Martin on Twitter.

31:38

I might email address [email protected].

31:41

- Anything else?

31:42

- Spend some time on the AppExchange.

31:44

If you go to appexchange.com/new,

31:47

there's an amazing page that shows you

31:49

all the latest innovation from our ecosystem.

31:53

Every day of the week, it's amazing.

31:55

I'm always surprised by what I find.

31:57

It's cool, check it out.

31:59

Thanks Dan, Darcy, by the way,

32:01

for this opportunity to talk to this crowd.

32:04

I'm excited.

32:06

- Well, thank you, Woodson,

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and it's been incredible and good catching up.

32:10

Thank you so much.

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