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Wide Awake at Dreamforce 2014

No More Cold Calling

Salesforce gives 1 percent of its equity, employee time, and products to support nonprofit activities. Those of us in the Bay Area have always known about their incredible generosity, but now the world knows. The Benioffs have donated more than $200 million to the Benioff Children’s Hospitals in the Bay Area.

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14 Examples of Socially Responsible Business Leaders

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Though Gro was founded in 2014, it gained prominence in 2019 during the government shutdown. Mariana Vasconcelos, Co-founder and CEO, Agrosmart A farmer’s daughter, Vasconcelos started Agrosmart in 2014 as a way to provide farmers with accurate tracking data backed by AI technology.

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The Pain and Joy of Growth [A True Story]

A Sales Guy

——————— When I met Keenan in March 2014, I had been working for Patron Technology for almost 7 years and had been in sales for the company for almost as long. He deserves all the credit for his growth, he did the hard work to get there. We were a good team, but our CEO felt that we could be better.

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How Marketers Can Play an Essential Role in Climate Change Education

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Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “drawdown”—the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline.

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