Mark, of course, Mark needs very little introduction, right. Mark, founder, CEO of Salesforce.com, founded 1999.

Currently a company just passed or will do this year on the order of $5 billion in revenue,

$36 billion market cap. And, you know, it's really been redefining a large part of enterprise software and enterprise computing for the last 15 years.

It is Salesforce's 15th anniversary. So, of enterprise software and enterprise computing for the last 15 years.

It is Salesforce's 15th anniversary.

So they're marking a very important milestone.

They just had an absolutely enormous event in San Francisco Dreamforce.

We were just talking about was just an absolutely staggering level of people following

it.

Most of what I want to do today is focus in the future.

So those are going to be the majority

of the questions, and I know very relevant to this audience. But I want to start by kind of taking

a trip back in time to 1999, which, of course, was not only, you know, full in the height

of the dot-com bubble, and a lot of companies had real issues, you know, in 2000, 2001, 2002 that followed. But also,

at least what I recall, tell me if you agree with this, what I recall at the time was Salesforce

was a particularly heretical idea. And I remember the original, you know, no software icon

that you guys had. And it was a very, in a sense, there was a very simple idea at the core,

which was if you can go on Amazon and shop by clicking, then you should be able to go on a Salesforce CRM system

by clicking in a web browser.

And this ought to be a lot easier than all this incredibly elaborate, you know, installed

software and integration and all the complete nightmare of things that companies used to deal

with, you know, and potentially a fraction of the cost and far greater convenience and so forth and so on. Today this is a very widely accepted

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