Jul 28, 2016
MBA Startup: Salesforce IQ, Steve Loughlin & Adam Evans (Stanford GSB)
Can you imagine being offered $390 million dollars for anything?
While most of us will never know what that type of success feels like, Steve Loughlin and Adam Evans, are part of the minority who do. These two Stanford Graduate School of Business alumni started RelateIQ, a data-driven company that produced an intelligent email client, calendar, and work dashboard that automatically determined which salesperson at your company had the best relationship with a customer, among other things.
The Palo Alto-based company was acquired by Salesforce, a larger company many saw as a competitor of RelateIQ, for nearly $400 million dollars in 2014. Continue reading…
