Opening remarks from Dreamforce 2015 (Welcome to Dreamforce 2015) emphasize Salesforce’s customer-centric mission, rapid growth since founding, and commitment to philanthropy. The speaker references Salesforce’s 1999 founding, the company’s transformation of business via the cloud, high ROI claims, a list of notable guests, and framing Dreamforce as a major industry event and platform for giving back.
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We are in the midst of a customer revolution. You gotta move fast and you gotta be bold. Pace of change has increased significantly. This change is not gonna stop. You have to. You have to be totally connected with everyone who touches your brand. For over 16 years, we've been focused on just one thing. Behind each and every one of these interactions, there is a custom customer centricity at its finest. We started salesforce.com in 1999. Just a few people in an apartment in San Francisco together could create a new paradigm. The power of the cloud is flexibility. It's speed. The power to change and improve. Right now, constantly, Salesforce has transformed the way businesses do business. Today, I run most of my business from the phone. It's a whole new way of thinking about customers. Salesforce just made what we do better of. Salesforce soared today after their debut. Its growth has been explosive. It's the fastest growing company in the industry by far. Biggest office lease in city history. Welcome to the Salesforce tower. Thank you for investing in price. It's being called the biggest software event ever. Dreamforce represents where the company is going. It's like a music festival for geeks. Who are these guys? Who's who of Silicon Valley. Please welcome Eric Schmidt. Sheryl Sandberg. Al Gore. George Lucas, Arianna Huffington. Colin. Bill Clinton. Tanisha Grayson, Marissa Mayer. Please welcome Hillary Clinton. Innovation. Fun. Giving back. Thank you all. Dreamforce, thank you for helping us give back more than ever. We're talking about a company that's got one of the greatest corporate souls. We're going to make giving back a core part of our DNA. From the very beginning, the work which has been done by Salesforce, it's really country changing. You can be in business or you can have a great company and that can be one of the greatest vehicles for giving that you'll ever have. Salesforce is helping us look at the world differently. We're making leaps and bounds and you can feel the power of it happening right now. Connecting people together to make the world better. It's the platform of success. What does it mean to you? What is this experience? I believe that the business of business is to improve the state of the world. Thank you for inspiring 16 years of innovation. We are only limited by our own ideas, not by technology. The success is doing this and Salesforce are absolutely helping us deliver better experiences for our customers. Our ROI is pushing 2,800%. 2,800%. I mean, that's phenomenal. Thank you for helping us reach extraordinary new heights. All the endless possibilities start swirling around it's effortless, just incredibly, incredibly powerful. On behalf of all of us at Salesforce, we want to thank you. Thank you to our customers, thank you to our partners. Thank you for everything. And as always, thank you for making us who we are today. Sam.
