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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. Organizing multi-channel campaigns, segmenting audiences, and distributing personalized content, suddenly appeared to be easy, like never before. 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.