How Zoom Is Creating Community in the Work From Anywhere World | Leading Through Change | Salesforce

Zoom's global CIO Harry Mosley talks about the company's explosive growth during COVID-19, its education initiatives, and how remote work is reshaping culture. Zoom Cares launched to support communities, and the conversation includes how Salesforce tools help engage prospects in a distributed world.
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Dreamforce it's our biggest event of the year. And this year, instead of you coming to Dreamforce, Dreamforce is coming to you. With a celebratory keynote, a week long learning event, and personalized meetings, this year's Dreamforce will be a chance to come together, share stories from this challenging year and celebrate companies who are succeeding in our new work from anywhere world. And that's just what we'll be doing in our special leading through Change Dream 4 Series. Over the course of this month, we'll be supercharging our Leading Through Change shows as we build up to mark Benioff's keynote on December 2nd and DreamTX later next month. Good morning. I'm Linda Aiello and welcome to this special Leading Through Change Dreamforce Edition episode. A chance for you to hear ideas from leaders who are doing their best to get through these challenging times and support their communities. Before I hand it over to my colleague Polly Sumner, I wanted to preview the next hour. Polly will be interviewing Zoom's Global Chief Information Officer Harry Mosley to discuss how Zoom has been laser focused on connecting people across the world. We'll then dive into a special demo by Meredith Brown to highlight how you can create meaningful connections, generate more pipeline, and empower sales teams to close more deals with digital marketing on the world's number one sales CRM customer 360. After that, we'll be treated to a very special conversation and musical performance by Matt Berninger. Before we begin, make sure you go to dreamforce.com to stay up to date with all our free publicly available Dreamforce 2U 2020 content. And while you're at it, subscribe to get the latest stories from the Salesforce blog. Every week at salesforce.com signup we talk to leading trailblazers, thought leaders and customers to learn how they're putting the customer at the center of everything they do. As we do every week on Leading Through Change, we want to help those who need it most. We are committed to doing everything we can to step up to the urgent challenge of slowing climate change and creating a sustainable, low carbon future for all. We're proud to support American Forests, a nonprofit conservation organization building a reforestation movement in America, and we'd love you to join us. Donate online@salesforce.com trees again that is salesforce.com trees now it's my pleasure to kick it over to a conversation that Polly Haas hosted the other day with Zoom's Chief Information Officer Harry Mosley. Hope you enjoy it.
Thanks Linda and hi everyone. Thank you for joining us today. Wow. This year has been like no other. And one company we've all learned that really has changed our lives is Zoom. I am super excited today to have Harry joining us from Zoom. Harry's the global CIO for Zoom. And just a little bit of a personal story. The last time I saw Harry in person, he was hosting a panel in Davos titled Culture in the Connected World. And then I invited him over for an espresso in our lounge and wow, Harry, the world has really changed since then. It's so good to see you again. And I was wondering, could, well, could you introduce Zoom to the audience? And then let's go back to the conversation where we left off, starting in Davos.
Absolutely. And Polly, wonderful to see you. It's quite staggering to sit here and think the last time we saw each other was like, January the 23rd, actually, to be precise, at about 3 o' clock in the afternoon because in many ways that seems like yesterday. But Zoom Video Communications, yes. We are a nine year old startup founded in 2011 by Eric Yuan. We went public in April of 2019 and we provide video meetings, webinars, large meetings, webinars to 50,000 people or more. We have our Zoom Phone platform, we have our Zoom Rooms platform. We have thousands of clients all over the world focused on every industry operating in something like 216 countries and territories around the world. We have 19 offices that are all closed. We host government on our platform. In February of this year, we started giving the software away for free to schools. And we now have 125,000 schools in 25 countries running on our platform. In terms of some metrics, a little over little under a year ago, December of 2019, we were hosting 10 million daily participants on our platform. And then that went to 200, over 200 million in March and over 300 million in April. And in January of 2020, we were processing 100 billion annualized meeting minutes. And as of October, that number rose to in excess of 3 trillion annualized meeting minutes. The growth of the company has been staggering. We're north of 3,400 employees globally as of Q2, and our Q2 revenue was $663.5 million, representing a growth rate of 355% year on year. So it's Polly, it's been a journey. I joined zoom little over two and a half years ago in March of 2018. And oh my God, it's kind of. I've always promised my friends. My wife was really worried that I actually sort of will execute on the promises. I. When I finally do actually get to retire again, because I did retire once and got pulled out, I want to write a book. And so in the book, there'll be all these different chapters about different experiences. I think Zoom needs its own book.
Well, we've tried that at Salesforce, too, and I'm sure that many people who are watching today have read Mark's book, but I think that's a really good idea. Recording your experience, your wisdom, sharing it with others. I mean, that's kind of just a really great gift that you could give all of us. So I really, really appreciate that. You know, when we were in Davos, we were like, I don't think we even saw this pandemic thing. And since then, everybody's life has changed, but I think yours went and changed on warp speed, sort of on the way home. Would you like to share that story with our viewers?
Yeah, I'd love to share that story. So we met Thursday afternoon in the Salesforce Lounge, having a couple of espressos because Davos is early mornings and late nights. And. And I picked up this on the way out and still have it today and treasure it. So, yeah, so Friday, went skiing. Friday night, had dinner in the city with my son who works in Zurich and some friends. And the Friday afternoon, I was on the Swiss Air flight, rumbling down the Runway, reading USA Today and about coronavirus. And I put the newspaper down and I sat back in my seat and I said, there must be something we can do to help. And this woman sitting next to me goes, were you talking to me? And I said, no, actually, I was just thinking out loud. So she said, what were you thinking? So I said, I was reading about coronavirus, reading about China, reading about quarantine, reading about schools shutting down, how this is spreading now to other countries, and people must be really worried, and the economy is sort of going to start to slow down. Businesses are going to start to stumble. How can we. You know, I feel like my company should be able to help people and help the healthcare industry. So she asked me, what do we do? And I explained that. And. And then she said, well, how do you think you can help? It's like I said, I think I need to talk to somebody at the World Health Organization. And she goes, I think I can help you. And so she did. And. And the, you know, that was on Saturday afternoon, Monday afternoon, talking to the cio, the World Health Organization. So it was. It was a pretty cool experience. You go from that then through February, we Saw it coming. We started thinking about how we can help more. And so that's when we opened up for schools. And then I remember very clear. It was like all these special dates. Polly. It's like March 1, I believe, was a Sunday. It was 3 o' clock in the afternoon, had a 6 o' clock flight, I think out to San Francisco for the Wall Street Journal annual C event. And I get an email, event is cancelled due to COVID 19. Okay, so do I still fly? Well, I was going to go to San Francisco for the event, which is now cancelled, and then I was going to go down to San Jose to headquarters and spend a couple of days with my colleagues and team there. And I thought, I don't need to fly. I'll just cancel the flight, I'll cancel the hotel and I'll just Zoom. I haven't been on a plane since February 25th. It's kind of like, you know, every day just sort of flies by. It's just. It's all quite fascinating.
Well, I'm with you all the way. You know, I had a little bit different experience. I actually left and then I went to my husband's birthday party, supposedly in Australia. We were going to go to New Zealand and we got the call that said, all Salesforce employees come back home. So I switched my life around, flew from Sydney back and, you know, have been here ever since, so to speak. So we also had to think about, which I'm sure you have many customer experiences you could share with your about what your customers are doing, but I thought I'd share ours. The first thing that we did was we decided that we needed to make sure that of course, health and safety of our employees were paramount in importance and their families. But then how do we make ourselves relevant? What could we do to help our customers? Kind of like your scenario with the World Health Organization. And we started talking about what tools could we use to remain relevant. And the one we selected and use every day is Zoom. So what we did was Mark came to us and said, hey, I want to make a challenge. I want everybody in the company to participate in talking with our customers. And we're going to have a 1 million Zoom challenge and we're going to record it in our CRM app. And I'm going to hold every one of you, no matter whether you are a salesperson, whether you're a service person, whether you're a developer, if you're in finance, I want you to do your part. I want you to make a Zoom call to somebody who's one of our customers or that works and uses Salesforce or is attached to the Salesforce community some way. And I want you to reach out to them and listen with empathy and just let them know that we're here for them. Now, we thought that million Zooms would take us a year, but I guess it's a little bit of the law of big numbers. We were done in less than 90 days, so now we've upped it to 5 million zooms. So we've tried to make it super fun, programmatic, and part of the new way we operate here at Salesforce. I'm sure you have some other examples from other customers. You don't even have to tell us their names. You could just call them a bank or a gas station or, you know, whatever it is. But could you share, like, a story that's inspired you?
Yeah, there's several that come to mind. You know, one. One is our own, actually. So. So at Zoom, we've established, you know, so that no internal Zoom meetings on a Wednesday. So your Wednesdays are for, like, catch up, you know, either on your own or reaching out to clients or reaching out to partners. But it's all sort of. It's unlike this. You know, there's no you're. Unless there's a course of, you know, so something critical that needs to be dealt with. But try to. The, the objective is to try and avoid meeting internally only on Wednesdays, which is to try and break up the week. One of our, you know, One of the CIOs, I spoke to one of our clients. He does something really interesting. You know, he used to fly to different parts of the world to meet with different teams. Obviously, he is not doing that right now. So what does he do every day? He makes a list at random of 10 people in a different city, somewhere in the world, and then he'll call them on Zoom. Not, not. Not necessarily in his organization, not necessarily, but somewhere in his company. And he'll just call them and he'll say, hey, hi. It's like, you know, I'm John Doe and I'm the cio, and I just wanted to call you and see how you're doing. He says the reactions are amazing. From, like, did I do something wrong? It's like, to, wow. It's kind of like, you know, I, I, I, I've heard about you. It's kind of like. And you're calling me? Yes, I just calling to see how you're doing. Not about work, not about the company, but, like, just to just kind of like what you were saying, just sort of be empathetic and check in on people because at the end of the day, it's people that make everything happen.
Yeah, I love your. No internal meetings on Wednesdays. We kind of have health and well being built into our daily lives now that in the beginning we started things like sessions about meditation or really great experiences with people who are focused on people's mental health. And very quickly, within two weeks, we had tons of our employees saying, can my family join? Could my kids join? Can my friends join? We've just opened that whole thing up, which has been just a really, really great opportunity for sharing and also for learning from each other, which I know Zoom plays a big, big part of your mission in life.
One of the things, I don't know if you've done this at Salesforce, but many of our clients have done this. They said, listen, you know, sort of, you know, Zoom is, you know, we license Zoom, we have the licenses. And so, you know, as employees, if you want to connect with your family and friends around the world, please feel free to use the Zoom license to do that. It's not restricted only to sort of like the companies business. Yeah, you can leverage that license because you're working from home. It's like you can, you know, do with grandma in Australia and it's like no big deal.
Yeah, exactly. I think we've all learned how to lean in a bit more. You know, we have been a company that marketing programs have been led by events. Whether those events are our company and another company or one to one or, you know, something as big as Dreamforce. So boom, all that went away because we had only thought of it, imagined it, executing it in a physical world. And now in a virtual world with tools like Zoom, we're able to not we still can't create the three dimensional experience, but we can create some dog gone great video and engagement experiences. So I can't thank you enough for your platform.
Pleasure. Happy to do that. Did you manage to catch any of the Zoomtopia events that we did at? Zoomtopia is our annual user conference. And so Eric was actually on a green screen stage. I don't know if you saw that. So he was kind of like sort of. We created this sort of virtual mountain. So we were able to sort of have him sort of in the air, if you will. So it was pretty cool.
Yeah.
That's great. That's awesome. I'm sure everybody will want to watch it and they can probably just find it by Googling Zoom.
If you Google Zoomtopia 2020, I think it's out on YouTube.
That's great. Super. So now that we've sort of redefined the way we work, I think there's many aspects of business. I loved that you had KPIs that were not financial when you were talking about how you think about growth. And I'm the Chief Adoption Officer here at Salesforce. We had a bit of that convers when we first met. And I feel that, you know, that's a new way for people to think about how they define success of their companies. And you've been really focused at Zoom on impact to the community. Your airplane ride story that you told was just one of them. So how have you rethought the role of Zoom in this new world in terms of impact on communities or impact on and the other things that you do in a foundation, in a giving kind of way? What's going on there?
Yeah. So, you know, first of all, on a personal level, I think sort of giving back is a. You know, we've been very fortunate in our careers and working for great brands and great companies. And so I think it's incumbent upon those people who have been fortunate to help those who have been less fortunate. And so when you think about what we did in the education industry alone, giving the software away for free to 125,000 schools in 25 countries, and that in its own right was sort of very rewarding in the summer to follow on from that, because when we did that, the schools just launched right in with Zoom. And you can't just take, you know, in the schools and education, you can't just take what you do as a teacher and say, okay, now I can sit in front of a screen and do exactly the same thing. It's not. It's like you have to rethink. It's not just distance learning. It's. It's the notion of distance teaching. Distance teaching is very different than teaching a class in a room. So we launched the Zoom Academy over the summer, which was again, something that we chose to do. And we trained over 35,000 educators on how to teach Zoom in the upcoming school year. So they would be sort of educated, so to speak, on how to do distance teaching. And then we have our Zoom Cares program. You know, in. In October, we did our first major grant of $1.5 million and with matching gift to six organizations that again, you know, promote education. That's you. That promote education equity and then climate change, something, you know, something that was very core to. When we were in Davos. There was a lot of discussion around climate change and the, you know, sort of the carbon footprint. So we estimated between January and September that Zoom has helped produce 45 million metric tons of carbon emissions by enabling people to millions of people, to connect and to work from home, or not just work from home, actually work from anywhere during this pandemic. And then lastly, you know, we do things like TechSoup discounts, with more than 20,000 organizations worldwide receiving, you know, discounts, 50% discounts on Zoom services, and almost 80% of those organizations have budgets of $1 million or less. So trying to do, you know, it's, you know, as my mother would say, it's kind of like, you know, sort of, you know, worry about the pennies, the dollars, take care of themselves. So I think, like, you know, everybody doing their piece, and then it all comes together and you can have like a really big impact, but it's like it's all playing together nicely, which makes a big difference.
Yeah, well, I think, you know, to me, a trillion of anything is totally unimaginable. But when about our trillion trees, it's kind of the same thing. Everybody plant one and miraculously, all those pennies will turn into a big impact in the world. So that's really great. Could we switch a little bit back to a little something about professionalism? And what does a CIO of Zoom do? I mean, like, what does your role encompass? Does it encompass the service plus all the operations? I mean, can you kind of talk about like that? It's kind of unique in a tech company. Company to be a cio?
Yeah. So, you know, when I go back to my prior roles when I was at KPMG or Blackstone, Credit Suisse ubs, you know, sort of enrolls there, it was all around the network and the infrastructure and the projects and the ERP systems and support systems and help desk systems and stuff like that. So at Zoom, I'm, you know, sort of. I have a very special role at Zoom as being the global cio. And so I talk to many of our clients, many of our enterprise clients all around the world, and I do executive briefings with them. And because I've shared their pain, I understand what it's like, what they're trying to achieve, and I can talk to them about our technology architecture, our technology differentiation, and then facilitate. So facilitating their. Facilitate these companies as their executive sponsor, as well as doing thought leadership and hosting events all around the world. You know, Polly, I think I've got the best job in the world. I really do. Not just because I'm the CIO for Zoom. It's like I actually really love what I do every day. And, you know, this, this working from home model has been terrific for a variety of reasons, you know, but it's, it's great because, you know, sort of like there was a day, I think it was like two weeks ago, I got up, I did a press interview in Frankfurt, then I did a keynote in Tel Aviv, then I did a bunch of local events here on the east coast, did some on the west coast, and ended up doing a keynote in Tokyo at 11 o' clock at night. It was a really long day, but it's like it was. I was so wired the whole day. It's kind because, you know, it's just great. And so being the CIO at Zoom is an awful lot of fun. I'm very privileged to have this role. I don't take it for granted ever. And it's very different to sort of anything I've done before. But on the other hand, it leverages everything I've done before.
Yeah. Well, that's great. It's almost like your story is about what we dreamed of when we were kids. Could we actually do time travel? I mean, like the digital version of what it must have been like when air airplanes first took to the sky and changed the trip from eight days on the Queen Mary between London and New York to a matter of hours. So very interesting.
Yeah, you actually are reminding me of something. So when I started working from home full time in March, I said to my wife, I need to clean out my office. Because unlike you or everybody else I know, you know, sort of who keep their offices tidy, I had like stacks of stuff. And it's like, I'll deal with this another day. I'll deal with it. And it's kind of like the stacks were growing up. I had room for my laptop right in the middle of all the stacks. But it's like I didn't want to spend, you know, 12, 14 hours a day in such a messy place. I said I'd clean it up. When I'm cleaning it up, I came across a cartoon that was sent to me in November of 1990.
Wow.
This is like a 30 year old cartoon. And it was a very special cartoon. It was given to me by a member of my team. And it's a woman standing in front of an. Standing in front of a mainframe, looking at her watch. And the guy standing next to her goes, look at this. Look at this. She's pulling up the data on her watch from the mainframe. It was a cartoon back then.
Yeah.
Today we can do that with wearables. It's quite fascinating. So technology is, like, you know, rather amazing.
I agree. I do have a personal challenge for you, though, to think through at Zoom. You know, one of the things that I really enjoy about meeting with customers is not just the conversation, but it's actually sharing food. You mentioned the espressos that we have. There's something magic that happens when you share that. So maybe we could ask that amazing Zoom development team of yours to figure out how to do a Zoom dinner where it automatically shows up at my door. We sit down, the team. It's so cool. I think it would be just great in my life. I will volunteer to be your number one customer.
We'll have dinner. We can do that with Andrew and a couple of other people. It'll be fun.
Absolutely. You know, another thing that's very different when you mentioned about cleaning up your office, is instead of having a meeting in an office that's separate from where we live, we're actually now inviting our customers into our homes. Like the picture behind you on the wall, this photo I took on the beach here, you know, it's kind of a different way. And one of the things is super enjoyable for me, not always for the other person in the Zoom, is when people's kids or, you know, sometimes dogs walk into the room. I. You know, sometimes it's the. The plumber who's working in the other room that has to cut through or whatever. So, you know, how do you feel about. Like, you have a funny story for us about some Zoom experience or something that's happened to you.
Lots of stories. I think that it's going back to your point about sort of being in people's homes. There was an article in one of the newspapers, I think it was, like, in April of this year, and it was a terrific article. And it was like the following. Social distancing. You must be joking. That was kind of like the headline. And now you read it, and it's like, I never thought I would know this much about the people I work with in my entire life. You know, I've been in their homes. You know, I've met their parents, I've met their grandparents. I've met their kids. I've met their dogs, their cats. I've even met snakes. I've been in their kitchens, their living rooms, their dining rooms, their family rooms. I've even Been in some bedrooms and in an occasional bathroom. And, you know, it's. It's. I was actually on a board meeting, and the CEO was doing his executive presentation. And so his wife comes into the office, and she goes, sweetheart, I need you to hold the baby. And he's like, I'm in the middle of giving my board meeting. Present my executive presentation to the board. And she goes, okay, but that's an answer to a different question. I said, can you hold the baby? I didn't ask you what you were doing. And so I need to go outside and here. So now he's sitting in the board meeting, holding the baby, going through his presentation. There's 12 of us on. All on Zoom. Nobody says a word. This is. Because this is the real life. This is the real world. It's like, you know, and it's. And I think that's completely fine. I think, you know, sort of seeing the cat's tail go past, seeing the dog jump up. Oh, there was another. Great. Another one. It's like I was on with a client one day, and we're having this conversation. She goes, Billy, Billy, the FedEx man. Quick, quick, make sure he gets to take the box. And she goes, sorry, we've had this return, and, you know, we're up here in upstate New York, and the FedEx guy doesn't come by that frequently. So she's there, so it's kind of fun.
Yeah.
But it's like we're all sort of normal, and we have families and things happen. So I think. I think the world. Look, nobody wished for the COVID 19 coronavirus. It's like we really could have done without this for a fact. But I think, you know, whilst it's hard, we have to look at all these silver linings. And I think one of the silver linings we. That we'll take away from this is we. We don't need so much stress in our lives. We can be a little bit more elect. You know, work is work. We work for great companies and great brands like Salesforce, like Zoom. And so I think that sometimes we can just be a little too intense about our work and our behaviors. And I think that this is a lesson for us all to take away of. Just chill. Just chill a little bit. It's kind of like, you know, it's good.
Yeah. I think the other thing that I really like is the notion of being able to work from anywhere, even though I kind of assigned myself to a place in my house, that if the doors shut, other people don't like, just barge into if they don't have to. They do when necessary. But I've also started a new experiment, which is to just run my zoom calls with my headset and be walking somewhere. Something that lets me blend the outside inside thing. And I think that's helped me a lot get a different kind of chill around work life balance. Because before, man, I was, like, sitting in the same place the whole time, and that wasn't so good. So it's sort of now, I think my backyard is my office, my, you know, front porch. It's really been a big way to sort of let some of that go, to just have a conversation in a different location with a different experience.
Yeah, and you're absolutely right. It's kind of like, you know, it's. It's kind of funny, you know, what's the Tuesday, Monday. So on. On Friday. On Monday, I was talking to a member of my team and who lives here in Brooklyn. And so I said to her, you know, you know, that was a hell of a storm that we had last night. I mean, like, it was monsoon rains. It was like we had, you know, sort of hurricane force winds. I mean, it was like, it was crazy outside. And so I said, how was it for you? She said, I missed the whole thing. And I'm like, oh, did you. Matt and I drove to Florida over the weekend. We're down here for a couple of weeks.
Okay.
Yeah, it's like. It's like, perfectly fine. It's like, you know, why not, right?
Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I've been amazed by the number of people who have been driving around the US and ending up in different places on the weekends and staying, you know, visiting friends and family. So it's kind of a blend of how you connect again.
Yeah. I read about a family, I think, from Philadelphia because their kids are getting, you know, sort of zoom schooled all the time. So they, you know, they're traveling. You know, he and his wife and the kids are just traveling the whole time, literally around the nation. They bought an RV and the kids are getting educated over Zoom in the rv and. Wow, that's out of the box.
Absolutely. So. Well, Harry, we're going to close up now. Is there anything else that you'd like to share with the audience? I know we've really enjoyed this conversation, and I hope there have been some really great takeaways for everybody. But your chance to close it up and then we'll turn it back to Linda.
Yeah, sure. So this is wonderful, Polly. I think that there's As I said before, there's lots of lessons learned. I mean it's, you know, I mean Prior to COVID 19, like probably like you, I used to be on three or four flights a week. I don't think I'm going to do that, you know, at any point in the future ever again. Not because of COVID 19. I suspect that we will get back to being able to do things like that. But I've come to the realization, and I think many others have, that sort of video is the new voice. I always believed it, but now I think, you know, the masses really believe that more, more people are turning on cameras today, you know, sort of than ever before. So that's. And really appreciate my, you know, sort of my home, my family. And so it's been a lot of reflection over these last several months about sort of things I want to change in my personal life.
Harry, that was great. What great. Thanks for sharing those experiences. You know, I feel like everybody gets to know each other in a, in a very different way. Maybe they're. Oh my goodness. Who the heck is that? Oh, somebody needs a nap.
I think I just woke him up. This is Hershey. He's a nine month old goldendoodle.
Wow.
Yeah. So he's a consequence of coronavirus, so we got him in April.
Awesome. How cool is that?
And he comes to work with me every day. He knows all the signs. He knows when I go to the water faucet and get a glass of water, daddy's off to the office. Here we go. And yes. So it's a lot.
That's great. So how big is this 9 month puppy? If we see his paws, we'll know how big he's going to be. Right? Isn't that the famous thing about dog? Oh my goodness. You are in for an entirely room sized dog house. I'm telling you.
He's 45 pounds. But our previous puppy was a Bernese mountain dog.
Wow.
He was 130 pounds and he had a heart attack and died in January of 2018. Right.
Well, how wonderful for you and your family to start over with a new member, shall we say a new participant. And that's fantastic.
He's a Zoomie. He's on Zoom all the time. Because sometimes he gets tired sitting around and he says oh my God, he's so yawning. Sometimes he gets a little tired and he wants to climb up on my lap and so he'll join on the Zoomies. So it's always fun.
Well, that's great. Thank you so much for sharing, Harry. We really appreciate it. And Linda, I'm going to turn it back over to you.
Thanks so much, Polly and Harry, and for the guest appearance from Hershey there. What a great conversation. So now I'm excited to hand it off to my colleague Meredith for more on the power of digital marketing. Over to you, Meredith.
Thank you, Linda. So today I'm going to tell you all the story about how I became a happy Zoom customer. We all been on a lot of Zooms lately, so we know when a video call goes bad. And I was coming off of one of those really bad meetings. Let me tell you what happened. So I'm decompressing on my social media feed and I come across this ad for Zoom. Now I'm not super surprised because we all know the Zoom brand at this point, don't we? But what's pretty cool here is the timing of this advertising. It was pretty magical. Now this is the power of Salesforce's advertising studio listening and creating personalized experiences for me right here in my feed. So I decide I'm going to click through and I head over to the Zoom website. And I'm pleasantly surprised that this experience resonates for me because I'm looking for flawless video, clear audio and instant sharing. And I'm ready to kick the tires. So I sign up for a free account and I'm on my way. So what's happening with the Zoom marketing team behind the scenes? Well, normally they'd be in this lovely office in San Jose, but they're at home. So we're going to take a look at what's happening through the eyes of the Zoom marketing team. They're analyzing the results from all of the campaigns that they've been running lately. And here we have this amazing account based marketing dashboard and you can see all the new pipeline that's been generated from the website from all of these channels. The top of the list is the Salesforce technology and products account. The behavior score here is really high because prospects in this account are doing their homework. They're starting to read all of the amazing material that the marketing team is putting out there. However, this account has a problem because the sales activities are way too low. How are they going to close these accounts with such little sales activity? But the marketing team has an idea. They're going to help the sales team with a brand new library of email templates. Let's go into the email template builder and create some right now. Now, this isn't any email template builder. This is a builder Built on the Salesforce platform, it means it has extensibility built in. With thousands of solutions from the app exchange, like this Vidyard video, they can just drag it right onto the canvas. Now we need to make sure that this is going to look amazing to anyone who sees the email. We want it to be personalized and we want to make sure that it's going to look great across any device. Now they have the confidence they need to put these templates in the hands of the sales team. So let's take a look at what's happening with the sales team. We have Christine. She's an enterprise account executive and she's starting her day in the Lightning app. She has the exact same view of the data right here. Let's go in and take a look at that account. She clicks in and she has Einstein here guiding her and letting her know that the revenue in this account is looking pretty good. She also received some recommendations of what they can do to improve. Einstein is providing the insights and analytics to know what's happening with the decision makers. We can see that engagement is trending up and we can see all of the engagement from those campaigns. The marketing team is really attracting buyers in this account. And not surprising, I'm one of the most engaged prospects because I did my homework. I went to some webinars and other virtual events. I want to make sure this is the best solution for my team. So Christine clicks in to my record and here's Einstein reinforcing that there's a high behavior score. I'm showing those buying signals. What's also pretty cool here is that she can see my journey over the past 90 days, all the different ways I've been doing that research. Now we can take all of this data, all of these insights, and with my permission, Christine is going to get the next best offer in front of me. Well, you can see here that the marketing team has really teed things up and Christine knows it's on her to get in front of me and get this deal closed. She's going to use email to check my availability and she has this beautiful template here and she's on her way to closing another deal. And that's how you create meaningful connections, generate more pipeline, and empower sales teams to close more deals with marketing on the world's number one CRM. Back to you, Linda.
Thanks, Meredith. That was great. Now you all know the drill. If you want to see today's musical performance and interview with Matt Berninger, please go to Salesforce live right now. That's salesforce.com live so if you're watching us on Twitter, head over to Salesforce live right now. Salesforce.com live.










