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-- Live Nation continues to be crushed by the weight of an unemployment rate of a staggering nine point 1%.
One of the -- growing dot coms is dying to higher but simply can't find enough qualified people to affiliates jobs.
This as its building one of the most talked about social networks for business.
Liz claimant is live in Silicon Valley in a Fox Business exclusive with the -- lives.
Well here's what I say to our viewers if you run for or work for a business that cares about its customers than you know Salesforce.com.
There -- customer relationship management about this new product called chatter.
Which is in essence FaceBook for businesses and I'm joined right now by the co-founder of Salesforce.com.
Which is -- of -- Older well established Silicon Valley business it's doing unbelievably well Parker Harris is with us now and you got yourself a problem.
You're dying to hire people when you can't find enough good people.
-- we Ireland since it's amazing you know we have about 6000 people in the company now.
And we can't find enough good people it's a real war for talent -- it's really crazy how many how many positions you have a and -- -- another maybe 500 people to the rest of this year and you know really can't hire enough great people sales people I'm looking for amazing engineers.
And with a call over not just in the Bay Area to find a qualified employee.
Well qualified employees got to be really smart obviously they got to sit and our culture we have a real debate oriented culture and you know they really have to be you know passionate about what we're doing really changing the way people work let's talk about what you're doing Salesforce.com.
To quickly in sort of a nutshell explain to our viewers what it is and then we'll get to the -- chatter Pratt -- -- so.
When we started -- with something that people in the -- and in many business circles but.
And I think we've expanded that to be a very common term it's about how do we take care of customers.
Customers that you're selling to customers that you're telling about your products -- marketing maybe and then once you've sold them.
Heidi take care them and they have an issue doesn't -- vital ecosystem as a whole ecosystem it's basically the relationship that you have with a customer.
Okay you say that chatter is the FaceBook for businesses I thought that was -- didn't know what -- -- am I confused here.
So if you think about chatter it's about with -- with employees you know employees that are selling are helping their customers -- connect to each other in a corporation that we used to be three people at salesforce.
-- -- 6000 how to life finds someone to help me when I'm selling -- when I'm supportive customer and then.
Getting out of that customer how to like connect that customer to the right people and -- see how that amazing connection.
You have all different kinds of customers and and I read somewhere that huge number of your customers.
Use blackberries yes the Blackberry outage where people freaking out and where they calling in to salesforce and help me find so it's like how to -- -- you.
So we've got a call existing week I did not hear I heard more about in the popular press and -- support lines and I don't know quite why that was a that was maybe.
-- using you know Baz there and does -- is that didn't end up getting hit.
By that global outage.
But you know if you think about mobile and general you know blackberries are really you know amazing but then the iPhone came along android.
Our customers are dying to use our service on the -- Device on anything on anything.
Tell me about sort of the way of the world right now and and if you had president Obama's ear for example what would you say to him about.
Getting enough qualified workers into this country or finding -- -- well educated American kids who have gotten the proper engineering and science backgrounds.
You know.
You were talking earlier before this about H one -- and you know I do think the Visa as severe as -- I do think that you know while I don't see it all the time because I'm competing against these consumer oriented companies out there that are designed for talent as well.
But certainly they're people that we try to hire that you can't come into the country so -- we do have an office up in Vancouver office in Toronto Canada is actually more lenient almost laws which is very helpful -- It's a shame we can't allow it to be an easier process for Americans as we as we finish up.
Mark any off of course your CEO what are your big competitors obviously Oracle what is going on with the trash talking fight between do you know what He question Oracle -- Larry Ellison questioned the security of your model is we're -- -- we do know what it's so flattering if you think about.
We started thirteen years ago this little -- company -- so we're gonna come out we're gonna compete against companies like steeple we have nothing.
And then Oracle -- -- able and now to have Oracle really dedicated entire hour.
They're Oracle open world.
And talk about us and -- -- about our products I couldn't have been more flattered.
And you know Larry Ellison has his view of the cloud it's really in a box.
It's you know single tenant and you know and that's okay that's really services business wealthy here comes we trash -- -- and Casey didn't think that I think that we we have a different view and get out and we're not focused on Oracle focus and our customers and I and our customers tell us what they want.
And you know we are more secure every day.
Because we work with those customers I have an amalgamation really every top security department of every one of my customers -- not in.
All the top banks in the world take their security departments have them come work with you.
And help you make your service and -- more hacking -- partner and and then but this one more thing imagine when it when -- resolved.
Everyone gets off immediately I don't have to ship found that new version so anyway well.
He's hiring everyone yes they're looking for good qualified people could please come join us we needed here at sales.
Wars all right that's great to hear at a time we have nine point 0% -- -- Parker Harris is the co-founder of Salesforce.com.
Here in the large atrium of electronic arts and of course it's day one of three days -- the valley.
How could we not talk fifa soccer match.
All of the big sports players that they have here coming up Andrew Wilson is the sports executive vice president here at EA imagine getting paid you guys.
-- -- Playing sports but it gets so much deeper than that it's all going mobile back to you live from silicon valley bank unit loved the fifa soccer yeah I could get paid -- at a live don't really -- yeah do you support gonna support.
Like Chelsea.
But so my -- -- and not even in the Premier -- so -- split as but I want to get paid to play out and elect -- effective how they won't get an automatic thanks very much Liz --
