George Hu, Twilio's COO, spoke to Business Insider about how Marc Benioff changed his life after the Salesforce boss mentored him as a young intern.
But if it wasn't for a single email Hu sent to billionaire Salesforce founder, Marc Benioff, while interning at the company back in 2002, his career could have panned out very differently.
Marc Benioff, the billionaire cofounder of Salesforce, has exerted a profound influence on George Hu's career.He found that most of Salesforce's new users were coming in through word-of-mouth and referrals, rather than through advertising. This meant that Salesforce stopped spending money on print advertising and began investing more in salespeople, to carry out more follow-ups.
"And that's what happened, actually. If you look at my résumé at Salesforce, I moved through different roles every 18 months." "So, towards the end of my time at Salesforce, the COO role became the logical outflow; the natural function for me, because I had a personal view of every aspect of the business. That's made me effective as a COO, and that's why I love the [COO] role.The rise of Marc Benioff, the bombastic Salesforce CEO who's buying up Time Magazine for $190 million
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