Einstein, my Dear Watson. As predicted, Salesforce joins IBM at AI’s top table.

“I never think of the future — it comes soon enough.” Einstein Salesforce (the world’s most innovative software company according to Forbes) and IBM (the world’s most inventive company according to number of successfully filed patents) signed a monumental agreement in the last 24 hours. Exactly two years ago today I wrote… Read More
Revisiting Rocks Thrown at the Cloud 12 months later (and a goodbye to Rosling)

“The idea is to go from numbers to information to understanding.” Hans Rosling I didn’t write ‘Throwing Rocks at the Cloud’ twelve months ago for investors, but anyone (with significant funds to invest) who took my advice would have made a fortune. I wrote it to accelerate the righting of… Read More
Salesforce Evolution

Salesforce is one of a handful of companies in the world seriously helping to shape our future. Hence a group dedicated to future tech and Salesforce is long overdue. Welcome to the the Salesforce Evolution group. “Life is an Uber ride, you have to decide what your destination is. Predict… Read More
Dreaming in Concrete and Einstein’s Lunch
Salesforce will not buy Twitter despite media reports

Passing by Yerba Buena in downtown San Francisco on my way to Dreamforce yesterday morning I noticed a plaque with a poem titled “Dare we Dream in Concrete?” I stopped and looked around to reflect upon the enormous entity this little startup I joined in March 2003 had become. The… Read More
LinkedIn Groups as Sophisticated Magazines
Crowdsourcing noise is pointless

Running a group like a magazine can turn it into a growth machine. Crowdsourcing noise is pointless. LinkedIn groups being run like high quality magazines may seem counter-intuitive. Or elitist. Actually it’s a recipe for hyper-growth. Groups supposedly exist to facilitate free-flowing interaction. Allowing everybody to be ‘part of the… Read More
Throwing Rocks at the Cloud
Hyper-Growth SaaS companies are not in crisis. Reflections on recent losses by SaaS Leaders, an Emotional Marketplace and Irrational Stone Throwers

The latest article by Tomasz Tunguz uses data very effectively to show us that the current market turmoil has more to do with ‘voting’ than ‘measuring’ i.e. the patterns indicate a much higher degree of irrationality than usual. He focuses on SaaS companies and clearly demonstrates that there is no… Read More