Mr. Mark Benioff, who is in his 40s this year, is a winner in life who stands at the forefront of Silicon Valley even before he chose to leave Oracle and start his own business.

As the senior vice president of Oracle, enjoying the top salary and stock dividends, Mr. Larry Ellison is a bit cheap, but he is not bad for his employees, because Oracle's performance has risen year after year, except for the year when the Internet bubble collapsed, there was no increase in wages, and the wages of employees are generally increased in other years.

It is said that love is deep and hateful, Mr. Ellison is very good to Mark and has high hopes, and the relationship between the two is more like a friend, and it is precisely because of this that Mark Benioff chose to leave Oracle when he was so angry.

This is not unusual.

Because even the most successful professional managers, the kind that have already obtained the company's equity, are still working for the bosses in the eyes of others, and many ambitious senior professional managers often choose to leave the company and start their own businesses after accumulating enough contacts and money, mainly because they are not satisfied.

If you continue to work in the company, you can see the future at a glance, work, daily life, earning money, and losing a lot of personal time...... It's right to make money, but don't think too freely, instead of being controlled by board members and a bunch of major shareholders, where is it comfortable to start your own business and be the boss.

Similar to Mark's approach, many people are using Sumu's companies as a springboard to gamble on a more successful future.

In recent years, many old employees who started their businesses with him have left, and it is difficult to say what will happen in the future, maybe it is better to stay and earn more, that is their own choice.

Su Mu can't intervene, but in the end, there will definitely be a few people who can really succeed, since the sixties and seventies, there have been waves of entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, and it is not just these people who can make the company bigger.

Others aside, he is quite optimistic about the entrepreneurial direction chosen by Mr. Mark Benioff, customer relationship management software for many companies, as long as the company's development direction is not wrong, most of the future market prospects.

In fact, the Galaxy Group under Su Mu has already developed a customer relationship management system by itself, which he calls "user data files", but he has never thought of using it to do business, otherwise there would be a share of the company's entrepreneurship.

The company has developed some patents, the general corporate framework has been built, the number of employees is less than 300, but the number of orders has been as many as 80, and it is recruiting people on a large scale recently, Su Mu invested 65 million US dollars as early as 1997 to get 40% of the shares of SAFTSE from Mark, and this investment must have made money.

Like the vast majority of initially successful entrepreneurs, Mark fell into a shortage of funds as early as the beginning of the development stage of his company, and it is precisely because the vast majority of entrepreneurs are short of money that this gives a group of angel investors represented by Su Mu a good investment opportunity.

As long as the vision and luck are not extremely bad, almost all the angel investors who have been in Silicon Valley for a long time have made money, and often a successful investment will bring them thousands of times, or even tens of thousands of times the huge return!

Seeing that the glass of water on the coffee table had not been removed, Mr. Benioff asked him, "There was a guest just now?"

"Well, there are a lot of things going on today, and a designer just came over and handed me the design plan for the Penguin Apple company's direct store. ”

Su Mu replied, sat on the chair behind the desk, found a comfortable position to lie down, and asked in a lazy tone: "What about you, why do you have time to come to me today, is the company finally not busy?"

It is true that they invested in the SAFTSE company, but Sumu has been the steward, and Benioff is the CEO of the SAFTSE company, and now the company is the two shareholders, accounting for 60% and 40% of the shares respectively.

Partnership business, whoever contributes more will get a higher return, this is not a contradiction, Benioff can get a salary from the Saifuse company, and he also formulated an option plan for himself, Su Mu felt that this was very reasonable, and he agreed to him last year, if he started to think about it in the company's entrepreneurial stage, then most of the time there will be no good results in the future.

After hearing this, Benioff shook his head, and told helplessly: "How can I not be busy, I have slept in the company recently and haven't returned, if I don't know that I am really tired, my wife even thinks that I have cheated, there are not many employees who have the ability to help me deal with various things, and I don't believe that they can strive to be the best like me, so I can only come by myself." ”

Su Mu smiled: "Haha! When the company becomes larger, you will find that no matter how hard you work, there are endless things waiting for you, and at that time you must believe that the employees can do a good job, otherwise you, the CEO, will die of exhaustion."

When I first started my business, I didn't know anything, but I was fortunate to meet two wonderful professional managers who helped me, one is Qian Helberg and the other is Blake, and I should really thank them both. ”

Qian Helberg is still the CEO of Galaxy Group, and almost no one in Silicon Valley knows that he has become a billionaire after so many years of following Su Mu into business.

I hadn't heard the name Blake for a long time, Benioff used to see her at parties and asked curiously: "Where did Blake go to work, if you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten her, it seems that I haven't seen her for a long time." ”

"It's been a little bit since Blake left my company, and he sent me a greeting card from New Zealand last Christmas, and it seems like he bought a small farm there to start a homestay business, and he is having a good time.

New Zealand is a good place to live, and I found that female executives are different from us, and when they have enough wealth, they want to live the life they want, which is good. ”

"It's true, there aren't many female executives in Silicon Valley, and my former boss, Ellison, has been sued for discriminating against women. Benioff said.

Su Mu was not surprised at all, and said happily: "If a beautiful woman who works at Oracle sues Ellison for sexual harassment, I don't think any judge or jury member will think that he is innocent, and his reputation is so bad......"

After a long period of non-nutritious small talk, Benioff finally got down to business, telling Su Mu: "You know, the SAFTSE has been busy with a lot of orders and few employees lately. The headhunter has taken a fancy to several Galaxy Group employees, and I would like to ask your permission to let them come to work in our company. ”

The palms and backs of his hands were full of meat, Su Mu thought for a short time, shrugged his shoulders and replied to him: "You yourself send someone to talk to them privately, if they want, I have no problem at all......"