The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry
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"The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry" is the subtitle of Marc Benioff’s business book "Behind the Cloud," which chronicles the creation and disruptive growth of Salesforce.com and the broader impact of cloud computing on the software industry.
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| The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry canonical | 1 |
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Target entity: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry Context triple: [Behind the Cloud, subtitle, The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry]
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Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
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Zero to One
"Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
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The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
"The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company" is a business memoir by David Packard that recounts the founding and growth of Hewlett-Packard while outlining the management philosophy and values that shaped the company.
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The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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The Facebook Effect
The Facebook Effect is a nonfiction book by David Kirkpatrick that chronicles the founding, growth, and global impact of Facebook on technology, business, and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry Target entity description: "The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry" is the subtitle of Marc Benioff’s business book "Behind the Cloud," which chronicles the creation and disruptive growth of Salesforce.com and the broader impact of cloud computing on the software industry.
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A.
Masters of Scale
Masters of Scale is a business and entrepreneurship podcast that explores how companies grow from startup to massive scale through interviews with leading founders and innovators.
-
B.
Zero to One
"Zero to One" is a bestselling business and startup book by entrepreneur and investor Peter Thiel that explores how to build innovative companies that create entirely new markets rather than competing in existing ones.
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C.
The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company
"The HP Way: How Bill Hewlett and I Built Our Company" is a business memoir by David Packard that recounts the founding and growth of Hewlett-Packard while outlining the management philosophy and values that shaped the company.
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D.
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future
The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future is a business and technology book that outlines how the next era of the internet will transform major sectors like health, education, and government, and what entrepreneurs must do to succeed in it.
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E.
The Facebook Effect
The Facebook Effect is a nonfiction book by David Kirkpatrick that chronicles the founding, growth, and global impact of Facebook on technology, business, and society.
- F. None of above. chosen
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| instanceOf |
book subtitle
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nonfiction subtitle ⓘ |
| associatedWithAuthor |
Carlye Adler
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Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| describes |
creation of Salesforce.com
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disruptive impact of Salesforce.com ⓘ growth of Salesforce.com ⓘ |
| focusesOnCompany |
Salesforce
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Salesforce ⓘ
surface form:
Salesforce.com
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| genre |
business
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entrepreneurship ⓘ technology industry history ⓘ |
| isSubtitleOf | Behind the Cloud ⓘ |
| language | English ⓘ |
| marketedAs | full descriptive subtitle of Behind the Cloud ⓘ |
| medium |
ebook
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print ⓘ |
| partOfWorkType | business book ⓘ |
| refersTo |
Salesforce.com becoming a billion-dollar company
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revolution in software industry business model ⓘ |
| refersToPerson | Marc Benioff ⓘ |
| relatesToConcept |
disruption in technology markets
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innovation in software delivery ⓘ startup growth ⓘ |
| topic |
cloud computing
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enterprise software industry ⓘ software-as-a-service ⓘ |
| usedAsMarketingTaglineFor | Behind the Cloud ⓘ |
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You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Subject: The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry Description of subject: "The Untold Story of How Salesforce.com Went from Idea to Billion-Dollar Company—and Revolutionized an Industry" is the subtitle of Marc Benioff’s business book "Behind the Cloud," which chronicles the creation and disruptive growth of Salesforce.com and the broader impact of cloud computing on the software industry.
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