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Customer Data Platforms: The Next Big Shift in SaaS Marketing Stacks?

ConversionXL

7 years later, in 1993, Tom Siebel thought that Oracle (the company where he was employed) could have sold the internal sales application as a standalone product. His name was Mark Benioff (another former Oracle Executive) and in 1999 he had the pleasure to introduce the business world the first CRM in Cloud. All manual operations.

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Raving Fans – How Our Themes Evolve

Feld Thoughts

I first thought of raving fans when I read Ken Blanchard’s book by the same name in 1993 when I was CEO of Feld Technologies (my first company). ” We invested in Sympoz in our Distribution theme , but it has this special characteristic around its community that felt a little different to us.