This year at Dreamforce '17, Salesforce Ventures, our corporate Venture arm and Salesforce for Startups, our startup portal, worked hand in hand to bring 28 startup Trailblazers to the Startup Valley with the goal to inspire you.
To spread the energy of Startup Valley beyond the show, we've captured a ton of startup stories to turn them into 25 short but inspiring soundtracks. Fun fact: A 19' Airstream Bambi was our podcast studio.
Innovation is one of our core values here at Salesforce and part of what enables our company to move as quickly as it does is its strong ecosystem—one that, according to IDC, will enable the creation of $389 billion in new revenue by 2020. As much as we get inspired by the startups around us, startups learn from us too. Simply put, we are better together.
Will Dinkel's unusual path puts him in an ideal position to understand different areas of the business. He started as a engineer, transitioned to sales and marketing and then created Nova, an AI-powered platform for outbound sales. The startups uses natural language generation to write warm and personal emails that they know—based on data—will perform well. Just like Brero, he found his addressable market in the Salesforce customer base. When the company grows up to become hugely successful, he hopes to keep the same passion Salesforce has.
Dan O'Connell is a local. He spent ten years at Google before starting TalkIQ with one goal in mind: use real-time voice analytics to get insights from every conversation with customers or prospects. By using their AppExchange app, your sales reps can drastically improve win rates. And that's just one use case. With 95% of their customers using Salesforce, partnering was a no-brainer.
Stay tuned for more posts about the Startup Valley podcast!