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September 10, 2013 10:49 pm GMT
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spoke of his relationship with Apple founder Steve Jobs at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference this morning - on the same day that executives from Apple were introducing new iPhones in neighboring Cupertino – offering some timely advice as to what Apple needs to do next, now that Steve Jobs is gone. He complained that today’s Apple is trying to look like Steve and act like Steve, when really, “they need to find themselves and be who they are,” says Benioff. “Respect the past, but as Steve would say, project the future.” Moderator Mike Arrington actually allowed Benioff to speak for some time without interruption as the Salesforce CEO spoke of his early days when Jobs served as a mentor, guru and inspiration. “There would be no Salesforce.com without Steve Jobs,” Benioff credited. “Many things we created in our company he was the inspiration for, and guided us to,” he said, lamenting that Apple, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to say “thank you” enough for what Steve Jobs had built. In front of a crowd of tech entrepreneurs who these days often seem to be more “inspired” by the potential to make millions than help the world, while posturing in a way which they think reflect Steve Jobs’ style – critical, and sometimes arrogant – Benioff said that they’re taking away the wrong message from what they think they know about the former Apple CEO. Steve Jobs was a “spiritual man,” said Benioff, and that’s an aspect to his personality that hasn’t been properly captured by the books and now the movies that are being made in the wake of his passing. Steve Jobs was “mindful and conscious of everything he did,” said Benioff, and he thought we needed to work on “actualizing ourselves.” He spoke of Jobs’ spiritual journeys to India, for example, as a way to connect with those deeper inspirations. “Hehad this incredible realization [in India] that his intuition was his greatest gift, and he needed to look at world from inside out.” But Arrington also pointed out that some of Jobs’ inspiration came from psychedelic drugs, too. When asked if he also followed Jobs’ example when it came to drugs, and specifically LSD, Benioff recalled that he’d had early success (for example, working in the Macintosh division as a teenager), and as a result he needed to “straighten myself out a little bit,”
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Marc Benioff Says, There Would Be No Salesforce.com Without Steve Jobs'
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff spoke of his relationship with Apple founder Steve Jobs at the TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2013 conference this morning - on the same day that executives from Apple were introducing new iPhones in neighboring Cupertino – offering some timely advice as to what Apple needs to do next, now that Steve Jobs is gone. He complained that today’s Apple is trying to look like Steve and act like Steve, when really, “they need to find themselves and be who they are,” says Benioff. “Respect the past, but as Steve would say, project the future.” Moderator Mike Arrington actually allowed Benioff to speak for some time without interruption as the Salesforce CEO spoke of his early days when Jobs served as a mentor, guru and inspiration. “There would be no Salesforce.com without Steve Jobs,” Benioff credited. “Many things we created in our company he was the inspiration for, and guided us to,” he said, lamenting that Apple, meanwhile, doesn’t seem to say “thank you” enough for what Steve Jobs had built. In front of a crowd of tech entrepreneurs who these days often seem to be more “inspired” by the potential to make millions than help the world, while posturing in a way which they think reflect Steve Jobs’ style – critical, and sometimes arrogant – Benioff said that they’re taking away the wrong message from what they think they know about the former Apple CEO. Steve Jobs was a “spiritual man,” said Benioff, and that’s an aspect to his personality that hasn’t been properly captured by the books and now the movies that are being made in the wake of his passing. Steve Jobs was “mindful and conscious of everything he did,” said Benioff, and he thought we needed to work on “actualizing ourselves.” He spoke of Jobs’ spiritual journeys to India, for example, as a way to connect with those deeper inspirations. “Hehad this incredible realization [in India] that his intuition was his greatest gift, and he needed to look at world from inside out.” But Arrington also pointed out that some of Jobs’ inspiration came from psychedelic drugs, too. When asked if he also followed Jobs’ example when it came to drugs, and specifically LSD, Benioff recalled that he’d had early success (for example, working in the Macintosh division as a teenager), and as a result he needed to “straighten myself out a little bit,”Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/Txc-7y9pqQ4/
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