I dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you about salesforce. Com for those people who are not that familiar with it. There may be a few. You started the company in 1999 . Marc yes. David and today it has a market value of about 130 billion . Marc yes. David if you bought the stock at the beginning, you would be up about 7000 . Marc 3500 . But whos counting . You are more on those things than i am. You are a much better investor. David i dont know about that. But ok. Marc we had a good shareholder return, but the thing is we have also had what we call a very good stakeholder return. So we have also been able to give away 300 million. Weve done 4 million hours of volunteerism. David for those who arent knowledgeable about what salesforce. Coms Mai
Alright. Leave it this way. All right. David i do not consider myself a journalist. No one else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you about salesforce. Com for those who are not familiar with it. There may be a few. You started the company in 1999 and today it has a market value of 130 billion. If you bought the stock at the beginning, you would be up to 7000 . Marc 3500 , but who is counting . You are better investor. David i dont know about that. Marc we have had a very good shareholder return and a good stakeholder return. We have also been able to give away 300 million. We have done 400 million hours of volunteerism. David for those who are not knowledgeable about what salesforce. Coms Main Business is what does it do . , marc it is a Software Company. If you go to adidas. Com and buy som
David i dont consider myself a journalist. And nobody else would consider myself a journalist. I began to take on the life of being an interviewer even though i have a day job of running a private equity firm. How do you define leadership . What is it that makes somebody tick . Let me ask you about salesforce. Com for those people who are not that familiar with it. There may be a few. You started the company in 1999 . Marc yes. David and today it has a market value of 130 billion . Marc yes. David if you bought the stock at the beginning, you would be up about 7000 . Marc 3500 . But whos counting . You are more on those things than i am. You are a much better investor. David i dont know about that. But ok. Marc we had a good shareholder return, but the thing is we have also had what we call a very good stakeholder return. We have also been able to give away 300 million. Weve done 4 million hours of volunteerism. David for those not knowledgeable about what salesforce. Coms Main Busines
Ok. How are you doing today . Good. [laughter] [applause] i have a number of jobs and , andrew will be here ok, how are you all doing . Good. I have a number of jobs, and are you all interested in meeting the next president of the United States . [applause] good. Marfan. Is steve politics, ilocal used to be the mayor of portsmouth, New Hampshire, and i used to be a candidate for governor of New Hampshire last year. Dont club too much. It is breaking news, i did not there would i won, be burly security people trying to intimidate you. Good news is, im not intimidating at all. There is a Silver Lining to what happened, because i have more free time than what i had hoped to have, and it was a year ago, coincidentally, a year ago today, i sat down for the first time with andrew yang for a cup of coffee at the Bridge Street cafe in my hometown of manchester. I knew him, but i did not know much about him, to be honest. Knew at aes in, i minimum we were going to be friends at the end of this
Good. Thats good. Coincidently, he will be here in 10 minutes or less. Hopefully, less than 10. I saw some people groan. It is going to be all right. My name is steve. If you like state or local politics, we may have crossed paths. If not, that is on me. I used to be the mayor of portsmouth, New Hampshire. And i was a candidate for governor of New Hampshire on the democratic side last year. [applause] dont clap too much. Breaking news, i did not win. [laughter] and had i won, there would be burly security people trying to intimidate you. But the good news is, i am not intimidating at all. Instead, there is a Silver Lining to what happened, because i had more free time that i hoped i would, a year ago, coincidently, today, i sat down for the first time with andrew yang for a cup of coffee in my hometown of manchester. I knew him, but i did not know much about him, to be honest. Five minutes in, i knew, at a minimum, that we were going to be friends at the end of this conversation. So he