This document provides 70 facts about Salesforce categorized under different topics. It discusses Salesforce's founding, growth, acquisitions, community programs, philanthropic efforts, and more. Key points include that Salesforce was founded in 1999, now has over 29,000 employees, acquired companies like Heroku and MuleSoft, and focuses on philanthropic initiatives through programs like Vetforce and BOLDforce. It also highlights the growth of Dreamforce and Salesforce's commitment to diversity and equality.

1. 70 Awesome Salesforce
Facts You Didn’t Know About

2. 70 Awesome Salesforce
Facts You Didn’t Know About
We’ve put together an extensive list of 70 of the
most awesome facts about the World’s #1 CRM.
We classified each fact by a list of categories which you
will find on the next few slides titled Reference Key.

3. Reference Key
Educational
Ohana
Giving Back
Acquisitions
Did You Know?
Dreamforce

4. Reference Key
Fun Fact
Diversity Community
AppExchange
Ecosystem
Equality

5. 70 Awesome Salesforce
Facts You Didn’t Know About
A little teaser on a few things you can expect to see:
• A yummy cookbook put together by the awesome and
talented chefs of the Salesforce community
• A Salesforce love fairytale (with a surprise ending)
• A Salesforce-themed band
• What Salesforce and the popular TV series Game of
Thrones have in common

6. 70 Awesome Salesforce
Facts You Didn’t Know About
After reading these facts, you’ll have a much
deeper appreciation and understanding of what the
word Ohana truly means.

7. Salesforce began in March
1999 when Marc Benioff
rented a San Francisco
apartment along with Parker
#20YearChallenge
Harris, Dave Moellenhoff,
and Frank Dominguez.

8. Salesforce has a band.They
are called Apex & The Limits
Ryan Headley
Rachel Rogers
The band members are:
Peter Chalmers
Mark Ross

9. Marc Benioff founded his own
company called Liberty Software
when he was just 15 years old.
He created and sold games for
the Atari that eventually helped
pay his way through college.

10. Salesforce has donated over
$8.5M to Bay Area Public
Schools in Oakland and
San Francisco to improve
computer science education
and hire more staff.

11. Salesforce was named the
“World’s Most Innovative
Company” by Forbes 4 times
in a row, from 2011-2014.

12. Marc Benioff is a cousin of
the Game of Thrones TV
Series creator, David Benioff.

13. Salesforce created The App
Store. Marc Benioff gave it
as a gift to Steve Jobs
for all of his help and
mentoring and settled on the
AppExchange instead.

14. BOLDforce is Salesforce’s Black
Organization for Leadership &
Development which helps create
#EqualityForAll
educational youth programs and
gives back to the black
community.

15. The Salesforce Tower is the
tallest building in the Bay
Area. It stands at a jaw
dropping 1,070 feet high.
It is also the most expensive
building in San Francisco,
costing $1.1 billion dollars to
complete.

16. As of 2018, Salesforce has
over 29,000 employees and 53
company locations worldwide.

17. There are over 3,500 apps on
the Salesforce AppExchange.
These apps have been
downloaded over 5.5m times.

18. RAD Women (Radical Apex
Developers) is a collaborative and
supportive environment designed
to help empower women to code
on the Salesforce platform.

19. Salesforce invented the
1/1/1 Model.
It is centered around
companies contributing 1% of
equity,1% of your product and
1% percent of employee hours
back to the community.

20. Hungry? The awesome members
of the Salesforce community
have put together a list of
their favorite recipes called
Cooking with Appy.
Bon Appetite!

21. Salesforce offers an Education
Reimbursement Program which
reimburses employees cost of
fees, tuition, and books up to
$5,000 per year.

22. Salesforce has been partners
with Little Kids Rock since 2003,
an organization that helps and
empowers kids to code and
eventually become future
Trailblazers through the power
of music. The Kids Coding Zone
was even featured at the
Trailhead Zone at Dreamforce
2018.

23. Salesforce offers a job training
and career accelerator program
for military service
members,veterans,and spouses
called Vetforce.

24. Salesforce and it’s partner
ecosystem is expected to
enable the creation of 3.3
million new jobs by 2022.

25. Salesforce owns Time Magazine.
The Benioffs paid a cool $190
million for the transaction.

26. The concept of Ohana came
house in Hawaii in the late
90’s. This philosophy remains
deeply rooted in Salesforce
culture today.
about when Marc Benioff took
a sabbatical on a beautiful

27. Salesforce has been voted as
#EqualityForAll
places to work and has an entire
community devoted to promoting
equality called #Outforce.
one of the most LGBTQ-friendly

28. Salesforce offers 56 hours
paid time off for each
employee to volunteer.

29. Salesforce ranked #1 on the
Fortune 100 Best Companies
to Work For.

30. At just 26 years of age,
Marc Benioff was the youngest
vice president of Oracle.

31. The popular PaaS (Platform as
a System) Heroku was acquired
by Salesforce back in 2010
for a “mere” $212 million to
help developers integrate
their projects seamlessly
with other various platforms.

32. Dreamforce first launched in
2003 and was held at the
Westin St. Francis Hotel in San
Francisco. It drew only 1,300
people to the event. In 2017,
over 170,000 Trailblazers from
all across the globe had
attended the world’s largest
CRM conference!

33. Salesforce’s largest acquisition
was MuleSoft for a whopping
$6.5 billion.

34. Latinoforce blazes a trail for
the Age of Equality within the
latinx community.
You can check out the
Salesforce Latinoforce User
Group here.
#EqualityForAll

35. There are currently 488
Salesforce.com groups with
over 142,671 users on
Meetup worldwide.

36. ***Editor’s Note: As of
this writing
Salesforce stock is currently
selling at $161.31 per share
and is listed under the symbol
CRM.

37. SaaSy was Salesforce’s original
mascot. SaaSy even has a
Twitter handle you can follow
with lots of cool updates,
swag discussions, and TBT’s.

38. Salesforce Trailhead leads
the field of gamification and
they make the learning
process fun at the same time
by completing Trailheads and
earning badges along the way.

39. According to Glassdoor, the
average salary for a Salesforce
Account Executive is $77,375
and well over $222,500 for a
Vice President.

40. Oracle founder, Larry Ellison
was one of the first investors
in Salesforce. Ellison invested
about $2 million of his own
money to help get Salesforce
off the ground.

41. Ohana Coffee is a community-
driven virtual coffee break
Hangout with everyone who
#OhanaCoffee
loves to chat about all things
Salesforce and beyond with
their Webcams turned on. It is
lead by Ireland User Group
Leader Lauren Dunne.

42. In 2018, Salesforce's Einstein
AI system has surpassed over
1 billion predictions per day.

43. Salesforce rewards the top 100
employees who have completed
and logged the greatest number
of volunteer hours within a
fiscal year with a $10,000
grant to the nonprofit
organization of their choice.

44. Salesforce has an entire
community designed to bring
together people with various
disabilities called Abilityforce.
#EqualityForAll
See what’s happening on
Twitter under #Abilityforce.

45. Salesforce has its own
community called the
IdeaExchange where you can
suggest and vote on ideas
from fellow Trailblazers.
Ideas must reach a minimum
threshold of 2,500 Idea
points or 250 votes in order
to go into fruition.

46. Astro will turn 5 this year and
we can’t wait to celebrate!

47. Love Your Salesforce Swag?
You’ll be happy to know that
Salesforce has its own online
shop for swag called the
Salesforce Store.

48. As of 2018, Salesforce has
over 150,000 customers across
a wide variety of industries.
These industries range from
SMB’s to large scale Enterprises.

49. There are currently a total of
22 Salesforce Certifications
available.

50. Salesforce is the CRM leader
with a 19% market share.

51. New mothers get an average
of 50 days off for maternity
leave, and new fathers get an
average of 30 days paternity
leave.

52. Salesforce Sponsored a car
driven by IndyCar pro J.R.
Hildebrand to an 11th Place
Finish at the Indy 500 in 2018.

53. Salesforce Ventures funded 95
new and follow-on deals in 2018.

54. Salesforce once hired paid
actors to carry “Anti-
Software” signs in front of
a competitor’s building.

55. There is a podcast series
called Campfire Stories which
include inspiring stories
from Trailblazers discussing
their journeys with Trailhead.

56. Asiapacforce connects
Trailblazers all across the
Asian community and beyond.
You can stay up to date with
all #AsiaPacForce related
events and news on Twitter.
#EqualityForAll

57. Salesforce has its own user-
generated community for Q&A
on Twitter called #AskForce.

58. Since its launch, Salesforce
has provided over $128
million in grants.

59. Salesforce has acquired over
50 companies since its
founding in 1999.

60. Need help understanding the
basics of Salesforce? You can
learn more about it through
Salesforce.com For Dummies and
through scores of other helpful
Salesforce books here.

61. Salesforce MVP nominations
are open two times a year for
three weeks at a time and are
announced on Twitter and in
the Salesforce community.

62. Southasiaforce encompasses a
wide range of diverse cultures
within the South Asian
communities.
Type in #SouthAsiaForce on
Twitter to see what’s happening.

63. ExactTarget was acquired by
Salesforce for $2.5 billion in
2013 and later became the
more well known Marketing Cloud
platform.

64. There is actually a Salesforce
Appyness hot sauce which
debuted at Dreamforce 2018.
Note: It’s Trail Blazin’ Hot!

65. Marc Benioff has donated
over $250 million over the
years to the UCSF.
And as a part of his generous
contributions, was given his
namesake on the building of the
Benioff Children’s Hospital.

66. Marc Benioff was a huge
pioneer behind Prop C, a
bill which raises tax on big
Prop C passed last year,
receiving 60% of the votes.
A huge victory for humanity.You can make a donation to
help support Prop C here
companies in SF in order to
fund homeless relief services.

67. Dreamforce concerts are
fundraisers that help benefit
the Benioff Children’s Hospital.
You can Save the Date for
Dreamforce ’19 here
These concerts have raised
over $60 million to date!

68. There is an annual event that
brings together thousands of
Salesforce Admins &
Developers called TrailheaDX.
You can register for
TrailheaDX 2019 here
It will take place between the
dates of May 29th – 30th in SF.

69. The coveted Golden Hoodie
prize was created to honor a
customer who made a serious
life change using Trailhead.

70. Marc Benioff’s grandfather,
Marvin Lewis, envisioned
the original Monorail
concept, more commonly
known as BART (Bay Area
Rapid Transit) today.

71. Dreampitch gives entrepreneurs
a chance to pitch their ideas
for the next great startup built
on the Salesforce platform in
judges with a chance to
win a check for $250,000
from Salesforce Ventures.
Pictured above is last
year’s winner, CarServ.
front of a panel of expert

72. Salesforce acquired Demandware
for an unprecedented sum of
$2.8 billion in 2016 and renamed
it Commerce Cloud.

73. There are a bunch of local
and international Salesforce
conferences brought to you
By the awesome members of
the Trailblazer Community.
You can check out all of the
2019 Community Conferences
here.

74. Each summer, hundreds of
interns and new grads launch
their careers in the Salesforce
economy through the
Futureforce University
Recruiting Program.

75. Salesforce offers a program
aimed at universities, colleges,
and nonprofits called Trailhead
for Students to help prep
students for careers in the
Salesforce ecosystem.

76. A pair of fellow Trailblazers tied
the knot after meeting at a
Salesforce Community Group.
Jessie Rymph and Zach Nostdal
connected on the Seattle
Nonprofit User Group, eventually
leading to a surprise marriage
proposal at Dreamforce. If this
doesn’t say Ohana, nothing does!

77. “Today is a great day to make
a difference for someone.” – Martin Luther King, Jr.
Let’s Make a
Difference Together!

79. CloudTech is an SI (System
Integrator), ISV, and PDO
Partner based in Israel.
There are less than 35 global
PDO’s (Product Development
Outsourcers) and CloudTech
is among the select few.
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