Bret Taylor @btaylor Twitter profile

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Bret Taylor

@btaylor

3 years

Also how I prepare for my first Zoom meeting of the morning

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The Twitter Board is committed to closing the transaction on the price and terms agreed upon with Mr. Musk and plans to pursue legal action to enforce the merger agreement. We are confident we will prevail in the Delaware Court of Chancery.

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The Twitter Board has reached an agreement with @ElonMusk

Elon Musk to Acquire Twitter

/PRNewswire/ -- Twitter, Inc. (NYSE: TWTR) today announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by an entity wholly owned by Elon...

www.prnewswire.com

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David Bowie in 1999 about the impact of the Internet on society

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A masterclass in marketing from one of the greatest ever, Steve Jobs. Marketing is about values.

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My first job was at a gas station, where I cleaned bathrooms and pumped gas. I earned $4.25/hr, and my shirt said “Brent” instead of “Bret.” Owner was too cheap to correct it. Cleaning public bathrooms every day under someone else’s name was solid motivation to learn to code.

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Here’s a silly Google Maps origin story about how “Satellite” was almost named “Bird Mode”

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I seriously want an Alexa option that makes her only respond if you say “please.” Hearing our kids talk to her makes me cringe — undoing everything we ever taught them how to be polite and respectful!

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It turns out, when you write the code, you have a fair amount of power. 😏 We pocket vetoed the decision and launched with “Satellite.” And literally no exec noticed or remembered our review. And we have been deceiving people with our not-really-satellite imagery ever since.

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Twitter has filed a lawsuit in the Delaware Court of Chancery to hold Elon Musk accountable to his contractual obligations.

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When I was a kid, I swore I would be the house that passes out full sized candy bars. We are in fact that house now, and it has been every bit as awesome as I hoped it would be. 🍫

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Preach. You people who don’t use Oxford commas are just wrong.

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Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. — Martin Fowler

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Netflix auto-playing previews while you browse stresses me out beyond belief

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7 years

Next four years will be ultimate test of whether our institutions are more powerful than the men who occupy them, as the founders intended.

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We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam Altman to return to OpenAI as CEO with a new initial board of Bret Taylor (Chair), Larry Summers, and Adam D'Angelo. We are collaborating to figure out the details. Thank you so much for your patience through this.

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The best feeling in software is when you are so obsessed with an idea that all you can think about is getting back to a keyboard to build it

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2 years

Twitter filed a response to Mr. Musk’s counterclaims. His claims are factually inaccurate, legally insufficient, and commercially irrelevant. We look forward to the trial in the Delaware Court of Chancery. See the filing here:

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Congratulations to @paraga on being named $TWTR’s CEO, and thank you to @jack for your leadership over the past six years. I’m honored to be the next Chair of @Twitter ’s board. Today is an exciting day for Twitter and all of our stakeholders.

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4 years

Like most Californians, checking PurpleAir is part of my morning ritual given all the air quality issues we’ve been having. I really wanted a PurpleAir map widget on my home screen with the latest version of iOS. It didn’t exist, so I made it:

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Proud to take on an expanded role at @Salesforce as President and Chief Product Officer. Looking forward to years of fun and innovation with my friend, mentor, and boss @Benioff .

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Thank you, Marc. I cherish our friendship and partnership, and I am honored to lead @Salesforce with you as Co-CEO. Thank you to our Trailblazers and all of our stakeholders for this opportunity.

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Congrats to my great friend @btaylor Salesforce Co-Ceo! I could not be more excited for our amazing new partnership leading salesforce together. ❤️🤝

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I love my Peloton bike and treadmill so much. Peloton has made me healthier and happier well before the pandemic and will continue well after, and the company created a new standard for integrated hardware and immersive, interactive media. Rooting for their success. 🚴

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Today as Board Chair I sent the attached letter on behalf of the Board to the OpenAI community. I am excited to be working with my board colleagues Adam and Larry, the OpenAI Leadership, and all OpenAI stakeholders. The Board's focus is stabilizing the company, building out a…

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Is there a good explainer article about why there has been a surge in spam phone calls over the past year? Every single person I know is experiencing this, and it is super annoying. I don’t know why it is happening or why it is hard to prevent and am interested in learning more.

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Excited to join @twitter 's board. Twitter is one of the most important services in the world, and I'm thrilled to be able to work with @jack

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How Eratosthenes inferred the earth was a sphere and accurately calculated its circumference only with shadows and pacing, as described by Carl Sagan. Amazing ingenuity and vision.

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The day Amazon becomes a direct competitor to your company.

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“What one programmer can do in one month, two programmers can do in two months.” - Fred Brooks

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54 years ago, my marriage would have been illegal in 17 states. Thank you to Richard and Mildred Loving for having the courage to bring their case to the Supreme Court, righting a terrible wrong in our nation’s laws and paving the way for my family. #LovingDay

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What an incredible company and community @Benioff and @parkerharris built 23 years ago. Grateful to be a part of the @Salesforce family!

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“If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole.” — Raylan Givens, Justified

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I wonder what percentage of tweets directed towards @paraga today are about an edit button?

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I’ve read a lot on Twitter about tech leaders leaving the Bay Area. COVID-19 has unlocked opportunity for technology to be built from anywhere. I think that’s a good thing: more talented people from more places building the future. But the tone of many leaving has bothered me.

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My shoe game is 🔥 for TrailblazerDX tomorrow thanks to @TheChrisDuarte . Don’t be jealous @Benioff #TDX22

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8500+ @Salesforce employees are rocking out to Maroon 5 at the Giants stadium tonight. So great to reconnect safely in person (powered by Dreampass and our Safety Cloud) and celebrate the holidays!

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Congratulations to ⁦ @Benioff ⁩ on being named CNN Business CEO of 2020

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I was born in Oakland, and I’m excited to stay in the Bay Area — to create local jobs and help solve all of the problems we face as a community, in partnership with non-profits and local government. And I have never been more optimistic about the future of California.

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If you meet an asshole in the morning, you met an asshole. If you meet assholes all day long, you’re the asshole.

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Salesforce Growth: 2022 $26.3B (guidance) 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to all our stakeholders!

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2 years

We are too. We remain committed to our agreement.

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Still committed to acquisition

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Rapid testing is the way we can continue to reopen and reconnect safely in the face of variants like Omicron. I think the most effective economic stimulus would be free rapid testing for everyone so every business can incorporate same-day testing into safety protocols at no cost.

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3 years

What is a technology prediction in which you had strong conviction that turned out to be wrong?

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Happy birthday, Google Maps!

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Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31.8B (guidance) 2022 $26.4B (guidance) 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to our Trailblazers and all our stakeholders!

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Being the product pragmatist I am, I thought, who cares? “Aerial Photography” doesn’t fit on a button, and every person in our usability study got what “Satellite” meant. Unfortunately, to the Keyhole GIS engineers, we were basically destroying humanity with our lies.

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Nihilistic password security questions - http://t.co/ULTS1TRWlc http://t.co/tTs5qxYmWv

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We are the only Warriors fans in this place and very happy

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Salesforce has completed its acquisition of @SlackHQ ! Together, we’ll define the future of enterprise software, creating the digital HQ that enables every organization to deliver customer and employee success from anywhere

Salesforce Completes Acquisition of Slack

Together, Salesforce and Slack are creating the digital HQ for success from anywhere SAN FRANCISCO, July 21, 2021—Salesforce (NYSE: CRM), the

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My son Sam's #CallYourShot to end malaria, dressed as his hero @StephenCurry30 . Join in at

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@jack I haven’t lost any yet and now I feel offended the robots didn’t like me enough to follow me

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I am speaking to you from the future!

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This is a next level belly flop contest

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I think it was Sergey who spoke last. “Let’s call it Bird Mode.” Bzzzzzzzz. I start to speak and am cut off — meeting over. I look around, and it’s clearly evident the feature has officially been named “Bird Mode” in the most insane way possible.

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This is a wonderful article about @stripe and the amazing founders @patrickc and @collision . One of the most ambitious and impressive companies I have ever encountered — and one that is consistently underestimated.

The untold story of Stripe, the secretive $20bn startup driving Apple, Amazon and Facebook

Patrick and John Collison have democratised online payments – and reshaped the digital economy in the process

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Wow: @zoom_us grew from 10M DAU in December to 200M in March. 20X growth in three months is absolutely insane.

The latest insights on how the world connects

Learn more about how to use each Zoom product to connect with coworkers, customers, businesses, and more with insights and best practices.

www.zoom.com

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Out with three generations of my family to support equality and justice for Black Americans. #BlackLivesMatter

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@Austen Just DMed you my mobile. Can get it fixed immediately

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“Teachers should prepare the student for the student’s future, not for the teacher’s past.” — Richard Hamming

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Who’s ready to go for the Dreamforce keynote! ⁦ @Benioff ⁩

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Welcome to the Twitter board, @elonmusk ! We are all excited to work with you and build the future of Twitter together

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I’m excited to share that we’re appointing @elonmusk to our board! Through conversations with Elon in recent weeks, it became clear to us that he would bring great value to our Board.

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Excited to welcome 1000 Trailblazers in person tomorrow and millions on Salesforce+ for tomorrow’s Dreamforce keynote! Register to watch online at #DF21

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Someone said they liked the canned cranberry better than homemade, and let’s just say the chef chose a slightly passive aggressive presentation. 😂

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I could not resolve the disagreement before our launch review, so we come into the meeting room with an unnamed feature. As you might expect, the meeting devolved from a “launch review” to every Google exec and their mother naming the feature on our behalf. 🙄

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The law of AirPods: When you buy a replacement for lost AirPods, you immediately find your lost AirPods

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Without question, this is the best video of the pandemic. It is literally perfect.

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"I'm here live. I'm not a cat." A lawyer logged into the 394th Judicial District with a cat filter on and couldn't turn it off. This may be the funniest video I've seen this year.

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Thank you to IT and devops professionals everywhere — keeping the cloud up and running in this new era of widespread remote work. 🙏🏻

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The top two stories in both WSJ and NY Times are about Facebook data being used improperly to manipulate elections and a self-driving Uber killing a pedestrian. So much nuance to these stories, but one thing is clear: the world’s relationship with technology has changed.

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Shameful. Students can't return to school. Permanent residents separated from families. We're better than this.

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I'm excited to announce @ClayBavor and my new company, @SierraPlatform , the conversational AI platform for businesses. With Sierra, every company can elevate their customer experience with AI.

Meet Sierra, the conversational AI platform for businesses | Sierra

Sierra is the conversational AI platform for businesses, enabling every company to create always-on, delightful, conversational customer experiences for everything from support to retail, recommend...

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A culture of refactoring is vital for successfully maintaining large codebases. The more code changes, the easier it is to change. Once code stops changing, it becomes virtually impossible to change. That inevitably leads to the dreaded rewrite and “second-system effect.”

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Salesforce Growth: 2023 $31B (guidance) 2022 $26.5B 2021 $21.25B 2020 $17.1B 2019 $13.2B 2018 $10.5B 2017 $8.4B 2016 $6.7B 2015 $5.4B 2014 $4.1B Thank you to all of our stakeholders!

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Planet or Plastic?

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Say hello to Einstein Voice. Now anyone can talk to @Salesforce . This product is going to blow your mind! 🤯 #DF18

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TFW you realize @elonmusk can get more people to buy actual flamethrowers in one evening than you can get people to download a mobile app. There are different levels of entrepreneur.

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The fact we don’t have access to cheap, rapid COVID tests in the US is the greatest public policy failure of the pandemic. Rapid testing is the best way to reconnect safely, we cannot get out of our own way to make tests widely available. Let’s fix this!

Here’s Why Rapid COVID Tests Are So Expensive and Hard to Find

Monthslong silences. Mysterious rejections. Here’s what's behind the shortages of a critical tool for ending the pandemic.

www.propublica.org

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Who says we are divided as a country? The Sunshine Protection Act, which makes Daylight Savings Time permanent just passed the Senate unanimously. On behalf of everyone with small children, let��s get this done in the House! ☀️

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5 years

Freedom of speech is not freedom of reach.

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A final note. This isn’t about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today’s democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It’s worth stepping back in order to address.

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The sign you have transitioned from being young to being old: When you discover an item of clothing you like, you immediately stock multiple copies (in case they have the audacity to update a piece of clothing that was perfectly fine the way it was, thank you very much)

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Whether it’s homelessness, equality, education — business can be the greatest platform for change to solve the world’s most pressing problems. I hope those people leaving the Bay Area commit to serving their new communities and not treating them as resources to be harvested.

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Hard truth: @Salesforce Idea Exchange is pretty broken right now, and we aren’t living up to our promise of true community engagement in our product roadmap. Good news: We have a plan! Come help @parkerharris and me design the next IDX at Dreamforce

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Thank you, @NewYorker , for capturing my reality so perfectly

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Only on Twitter ❤️

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Introducing the platform — tools to help every community and company reopen safely 💻 Workplace Command Center 🤝 Contact Tracing 🏥 Emergency Response 🤒 Employee Wellness 🗓 Shift Management 👩🏽‍🎓 Reskilling 🎗️ Volunteer Management

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Welcome to Trailblazer Ranch!

WSJ News Exclusive | Forget the Office—Salesforce Is Making a Wellness Retreat for Workers

Salesforce.com is creating a corporate culture epicenter at a California retreat where thousands of workers will connect in person and get training.

www.wsj.com

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Dreamfest 2022 🔥

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Salesforce. #1 CRM.

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The new frontier? It ain’t up there. It’s right here. #TeamEarth

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The view from the Salesforce Tower in San Francisco never gets old

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This one paragraph blog post was the only marketing we did for the Google Maps launch. Amazing relative to today's launch events.

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2018 has been deadlier for schoolchildren than service members of the US military. How bad does it have to get before we find the resolve to protect our children?

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It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood. — Teddy Roosevelt

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Thrilled to be joining @Benioff and the @Salesforce team!

Quip + Salesforce = Big News

We have some big news to share — Salesforce has agreed to acquire Quip!

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This number is staggering, especially b/c there are only about 7,000 undergrads at Stanford. Machine learning will transform all industries!

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Stanford's first day of class--record-breaking 1040 people already enrolled for on-campus Machine Learning (CS229). Wow! @danboneh

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At my first startup, FriendFeed (2007), we built our own servers. At my second, Quip (2013), we built on AWS, and a lean SRE team scaled the service. If I were to start another company, will “serverless” enable me to just build my app — effectively outsourcing SRE to AWS / GCP?

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This week we celebrated @Salesforce 's own Taher Elgamal being elected to the National Academy of Engineering. As the “father of SSL,” Taher invented much of the tech we use to shop, bank, and communicate safely online. Taher, it’s an honor to have you in the Salesforce family!

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I started my career as an Associate Product Manager at Google, and I am excited to start a similar program at Salesforce. If you’re interested in working with me to define the future of @Salesforce , apply to be an APM intern this summer:

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