'I run my business from my phone' says Benioff as Salesforce shovels $93m into the furnace Salesforce is in the fortunate business where it can simply raise its cloud-coated hand in the air and a fraction of the trillions of dollar bills being blown around the global economy will stick to it. At least, that was the message on the enterprise software-as-a-service company's first quarter earnings call for its fiscal …
A true investor *is* patient and thinks in years or even decades, depending on the investment involved. Nothing like the flashy-millisecond-flash trade ( true investors merely ...facilitate.. operation of those outfits).
But it seems that the Head of the Beggars' Guild can indeed ask for a "Mansion and a 8-course meal for 50 guests" in Real Life™... And get it.
Wanders off muttering about 'hands and shrimp.
I'm always bemused by these folks who reckon they can run their businesses from their phone. Really? I mean, really really?
Sure I appreciate you can read and send emails and stuff. You can probably read text documents and very simple spreadsheets, but as soon as the content becomes at all complicated - graphs for example - can you really read and understand them? Or dense tables of figures? Even supposing you can, can you really write a lengthy (I'm thinking several pages) document for the board or similar?
If you'd said tablet I could amost believe it, but phone? No.
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