What is the Salesforce mafia?

The Salesforce mafia is the network of 175 people who came through Salesforce and went on to found or lead other companies, including Contentful, Cresta, Opendate, Hyperion Solutions, Zone7 Technologies Inc..

Who is in the Salesforce mafia?

Notable members include Alexander Bruehl (Contentful), Andre Esteva, PhD (Cresta), Eric Tobias (Opendate), John Dillon (Hyperion Solutions), Tal Brown (Zone7 Technologies Inc.), Richard Socher (Aixventures), Dave Kellogg (Marklogic), Paul Hsiao (PipeDreams), among 175 tracked members.

What companies did Salesforce alumni found?

Companies founded by Salesforce alumni include Contentful, Cresta, Opendate, Hyperion Solutions, Zone7 Technologies Inc., Aixventures, Marklogic, PipeDreams, Etacts, Matic Robots.

The Salesforce Mafia

175 people came through Salesforce and went on to found or lead other companies.

Alexander BruehlCo-Investor ⇨ ContentfulFounded Contentful +6 Andre Esteva, PhDHead of Medical AIFounded Cresta +2 Eric TobiasVice President, ProductFounded Opendate +1 John DillonCEOFounded Hyperion Solutions +1 Tal BrownSenior Product ManagerFounded Zone7 Technologies Inc. +1 Richard SocherChief Scientist, EVPFounded Aixventures +1 Dave KelloggSVP/GM of Service CloudFounded Marklogic +1 Paul HsiaoInvestorFounded PipeDreams +1 Howie LiuProductsFounded Etacts +1 Mehul NariyawalaMarketing ManagerFounded Matic Robots +1 Evan BeardSenior Member of Technical Staff, Software EngineeringFounded Standard Bots +1 Matthew RastovacDirector, Product - AgentforceFounded Atmos +1 Lydia HanProduct Manager, Salesforce IoT CloudFounded ModernLoop +1 Upeka BeeSenior Software EngineerFounded DianaHR +1 Henry IrishDeveloperFounded Platformed +1 Paresh BhayaDirector, Product Marketing - Platform SecurityFounded Natoma +1 Andrew BoniEVP & Global Chief Pipeline OfficerFounded Scancafe +1 Jonathan KirstProduct Owner, Data.com API and Enterprise ApplicationsFounded Roostify +1 Max RudmanVice President, Product Management, CPQFounded SteelBrick +1 Christopher DeckPartner Advisory Board MemberFounded Deck Commerce +1 Devon CopleyDirector of Product ManagementFounded Avatour +1 Tom RogersSalesforce ICM SpecialistFounded Variabl +1 Alex BardEVP & GMFounded Campaign Monitor Kartik TalwarInfrastructure Software DeveloperFounded ETHGlobal Magdalena YesilFounding Board MemberFounded Market Pay Dan ReichDirector of Account ManagementFounded Slapsnacks Sriharsha GuduguntlaSoftware Engineer InternFounded Hyperbound Amy ChangBoard of DirectorsFounded Accompani Linda CrawfordEVP, Sales CloudFounded Helpshift Kevin MayerAdvisory Board MemberFounded Candle Media Antoine BlondeauVice President & GM Wireless Products DivisionFounded Crypto Ash ZenoozChief Medical OfficerFounded Caregentic Adam GrossVP, Platform and Developer MarketingFounded Personify Nobu NakaguchiInteraction DesignerFounded Zola Vivek VaidyaSVP Engineering and CTO, Salesforce Marketing CloudFounded Kana Steve LoughlinCEO SalesforceIQFounded RelateIQ Doug CamplejohnEVP and GM, Sales CloudFounded Coffee Kanishka MaheshwariLead Software EngineerFounded InterPrime Maynard WebbBoard MemberFounded LiveOps Anshu SharmaVice President of Product ManagementFounded Skyflow Frederic KerrestDirector, Sales & Business DevelopmentFounded Okta Tien TzuoChief Strategy Officer, Chief Marketing OfficerFounded Zuora Jason ChenProductFounded Stypi Dave YenSenior Manager, Technical Product MarketingFounded Roomblocker Russell NibbelinkSoftware Engineer, InfrastructureFounded Overview Avikam AgurPrincipal Member of Technical StaffFounded Weav Iain UsiriProduct ManagerFounded Ramani Gabriel Bayomi KalejaiyeSoftware Engineer, Machine LearningFounded Openlayer Artem GolubevSenior Engineering ManagerFounded testRigor Vikram SreedharSoftware Engineer InternFounded Shimmer Deboshree DuttaSenior Director of Product ManagementFounded Criya Christina SeongGlobal Strategic PlanningFounded Versable Brendan WoodMember of Technical Staff, R&DFounded SnapTrade Rani MavramProduct InternFounded Complete Joseph SciarrinoSenior Account Executive, Heroku at Salesforce.comFounded Hydra Avery YipData ScientistFounded Vessel Tony GinartPrincipal ScientistFounded Dialect Max LuSoftware EngineerFounded Paragon AI Shariar KabirSoftware EngineerFounded Ruby Card Rohan PunamiaSenior Director of Product ManagementFounded Bluebirds Kunal PuneraVice President of Engineering, Agentforce SalesFounded Bluebirds Baruch OxmanPrincipal Software Engineer, Sales Cloud EinsteinFounded Honeydew Sahil SinglaSWEFounded Retape Stefan KrawczykSoftware ArchitectFounded DAGWorks Inc.Elijah ben IzzyPrincipal Member of Technical StaffFounded DAGWorks Inc.Jatin MehtaSenior Member of Technical StaffFounded Speedy Labs Rishabh PanwarLead Member of Technical Staff - AI Voice AgentsFounded Watto AI Ishita BhandariSoftware Engineering LMTSFounded Watto AI Suryansh SoniLead Member of Technical Staff - AgentforceFounded Watto AI Haris IkramSenior Director of Product ManagementFounded CandorIQ Sutthipong ThavisomboonLead Member of Technical StaffFounded CandorIQ Sona SulakianFinance & StrategyFounded Pincites Amrutha GujjarMember of Technical StaffFounded Structured Labs Shivam SinghalPrincipal MTSFounded Structured Labs Maksim IvanovSoftware Engineering InternFounded Agentic Labs Brian CripeLead Member Of Technical StaffFounded OneGrep Jeffrey LamotheLead Software EngineerFounded Clarion Grant MargerumDemo EngineerFounded crmCopilot Will WangSoftware EngineerFounded Centralize Daniel DriscollSenior Manager, Software EngineeringFounded Elodin Mike PolcariMember of Technical StaffFounded Haplotype Labs Nikhil AjjarapuSales Engineer, Public SectorFounded Rescript Gokul KumarresenEngineeringFounded Asha Health Andrew ChurchillSoftware Engineer InternFounded Weave Celia ManzanoAssociate Solution EngineerFounded Rebolt Smit DagliSoftware EngineerFounded Kanava AI Cathy DiAssociate Product Manager InternFounded Dedalus Labs Vijit DhingraSoftware Engineering InternFounded Lark Sadia SaifuddinDirector of Product ManagementFounded Risely AI Satya Vasanth TumatiSoftware Developer InternshipFounded Socratix AI Greg KamradtSenior Analyst, Strategy & Growth, Data IntelligenceFounded ARC Prize Foundation Shubham MalhotraSoftware Engineer InternFounded RunAnywhere Caleb ChanProductFounded Lance Akhil SachdevSoftware Engineer InternFounded Docura Health Daniel SpokoynyGraduate Research InternFounded BeeSafe AI Seiji YamamotoDirector of EngineeringFounded PerfectBit, Inc.

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Frequently asked questions

What is the Salesforce mafia?: The Salesforce mafia is the network of 175 people who came through Salesforce and went on to found or lead other companies, including Contentful, Cresta, Opendate, Hyperion Solutions, Zone7 Technologies Inc..
Who is in the Salesforce mafia?: Notable members include Alexander Bruehl (Contentful), Andre Esteva, PhD (Cresta), Eric Tobias (Opendate), John Dillon (Hyperion Solutions), Tal Brown (Zone7 Technologies Inc.), Richard Socher (Aixventures), Dave Kellogg (Marklogic), Paul Hsiao (PipeDreams), among 175 tracked members.
What companies did Salesforce alumni found?: Companies founded by Salesforce alumni include Contentful, Cresta, Opendate, Hyperion Solutions, Zone7 Technologies Inc., Aixventures, Marklogic, PipeDreams, Etacts, Matic Robots.