Marc’s gift to Steve Jobs
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In this video, the speaker shares his journey starting as an intern at Apple in 1984, where he created the first Native Assembly Language for the Macintosh and developed a relationship with Steve Jobs. He recounts advice from Jobs during his time at Salesforce, emphasizing three key actions:
- Scale the company to ten times its size in 24 months or face closure.
- Secure a major customer for the Salesforce automation product.
- Build an application economy.
He purchased appstore.com and launched AppExchange in 2005. Later, Jobs revealed the Apple App Store to him, and the speaker gifted Jobs the appstore.com URL and trademark, which Jobs initially underestimated.