A Marketing Genius

The book is about a marketing genius who has a good idea in cloud computing and how he builds his billion dollar company from scratch. Throughout the book, Marc Benioff listed 111 points about entrepreneurship, covering from financing, human resources, marketing, visions etc.

The most impressive part is on marketing, especially on how Salesforce won competitions during startup phase, when SaaS had not been accepted by customers yet. There are several dirty but legal strategies Salesforce has adopted to successfully build up their brand. Those strategies are inspiring and deserve merits. However, a weakness here is the author didn't mention anything about competitors' strategies to curb Salesforce's development.