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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company. Parker Harris
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People think floating should be the easiest and happiest time for a company, but it's actually really hard. We were meant to think we'd won - we'd gone public and could go on to new things. But we were only just getting started. Parker Harris
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What I'll take credit for is finding visionary people in the company, or bringing them in, and then empowering them to help me. Parker Harris
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If you want a database, you don't go out and say you're going to write it. I see platforms as going in that direction. Parker Harris
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Businesses can't afford to react to what their customers want; they need to anticipate their needs. Parker Harris
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I grew up loving computers and math, actually. I also loved English literature and French, but I became obsessed with computers when the Apple II was coming out. Parker Harris
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Social computing is doing what agile methodology is doing to our process - it's breaking down our visibility. Parker Harris
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Those trying to get support for their iPhones don't necessary trust their carriers, so they ask their friends for help. Parker Harris
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We are building technology to keep up with what's happening in the world. It's transforming the way people are working. We're bringing the enterprise to the world. Parker Harris
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Where I'm focused now is how I get more women leaders. We decided not to just look outside the company for great women to hire, but to help women rise up through the ranks internally. Parker Harris
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When we started, we thought about the scale of the Internet - if everyone was using the service at the same time, what would that look like? Parker Harris
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I was lucky enough to go see Steve Jobs with Marc Benioff. We were talking about the iPad, and one of the things Jobs said - and it was a little self-serving - was go and build your iPad app, and that is going to change the way you think about your online app, and you will go back, and you will redo your online app. I believe that. Parker Harris
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I've used the term 'Facebook for the enterprise,' and everyone goes, 'We don't want Facebook in the enterprise,' because it conjures up that it's not secure, and it's going to be a waste of time. All these things are true, which is why Facebook is not in the enterprise. Parker Harris
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What I see now is the consumerisation of IT. I don't want my company to tell me that I have to use a BlackBerry or I have to use a Windows phone. I just want to use the phone I want and have it all work. Parker Harris
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Phones are a big deal, but tablets are an even bigger deal. So we're doing a lot of design work and experimentation around the tablet experience. Parker Harris
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We do a lot of outbound work where we're talking about the future. As we get involved with these new products, it helps us have a platform to talk about where the future is going. Parker Harris
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I have employees that are, you know, other types of diversity, coming to me and saying 'Well, why aren't we focused on these other areas as well?' and I said yes, we should focus them, but, you know, the phrase we use internally is, 'If everything is important, then nothing is important.' Parker Harris
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