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Salesforces Benioff pledges no significant layoffs for 90 days

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 NewsEditorcoronavirus, COVID-19, Marc Benioff, Salesforce

In a Twitter thread on Tuesday, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff outlined an eight-step plan to keep people safe and find treatments and a vaccine for the COVID-19 virus, all while working to find a way to get people back to work safely. He also asked that all CEOs take a 90-day “no lay off” pledge to help everyone get through the crisis. Salesforce is pledging to its workforce Ohana not to conduct any significant lay offs over the next 90 days. We will continue to pay our hourly workers while…

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Design may be the next entrepreneurial gold rush

December 23, 2019December 23, 2019 NewsEditorAirbnb, amish jani, andrew reed, Atlassian, canva, clark valberg, confluence, Dropbox, Dylan Field, eloqua, Figma, GitHub, HubSpot, LinkedIn, marketo, MySpace, Salesforce, Shopify, sketch, trello, Uber

Ten years ago, the vast majority of designers were working in Adobe Photoshop, a powerful tool with fine-tuned controls for almost every kind of image manipulation one could imagine. But it was a tool built for an analog world focused on photos, flyers and print magazines; there were no collaborative features, and much more importantly for designers, there were no other options. Since then, a handful of major players have stepped up to dominate the market alongside the behemoth, including InVision, Sketch, Figma and Canva. And with the shift in…