Parker Harris

“Looking at the trends that we have gone through as a company, where we started the company, it's all about cloud computing, and we're still cloud computing. And then we went through this space on social. When Facebook came out, that was amazing.”

“Our output and continued success is all about our culture. Ours has to be highly collaborative, and we have company-wide events and processes to make sure everyone stays aligned.”

“Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help.”

“Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience.”

“We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.”

“If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction.”

“What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me.”

“For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.”

“After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.”

“I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.'”

“I took a detour to France in my senior year in high school. So that's part of what ended up sending me, actually, to Middlebury because I went to school with people who were more from the Northeast.”

“We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world.”

“We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going.”

“By flattening time and space, social computing and business is unlocking credible potential within business. For example, individuals and organizations that weren't connected before are now connected together.”

“What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work.”

“When you come to San Francisco, we want you to know where Salesforce is.”