Comment / Market Insight: A Flexport-style disrupter, Salesforce is an 'SaaS' star that has changed the way we work and live

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What if I told you there is a corporation in the vast information technology universe that attracted precisely the same kind of criticism that Flexport typically gets these days from the incumbents?

Salesforce has been one of the finest stock picks of the past decade and will be for the next. This corporate darling was once tiny – “once” as in only 15 years ago or so, with $5m sales and $33.6m of operating losses in 2001. Indeed, to produce one ...