Founding of Salesforce.com

Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Frank Dominguez, and Dave Moellenhoff officially founded Salesforce.com, driven by the revolutionary idea of delivering enterprise software as a service over the internet, marking the true beginning of enterprise cloud computing.

Significance

This marked the genesis of a company that would not only pioneer the cloud computing model but also fundamentally change how businesses acquired, used, and thought about software, laying the groundwork for a multi-trillion-dollar industry.