[moonraker]

I'm shocked they're trying the carrot (in the most wishy-washy sense of the term) vs. the stick.

The amount of pressure they're under to improve the entire company's performance from 5 separate activist investors is insane. It's unheard of in enterprise software and I can't recall that number of activists twisting the screws on a single company in any industry.

I was skimming through their latest quarterly earnings call to see if there was any mention of Heroku... no dice but they were very proud of how they're now making sure that their salespeople are accountable for hitting their sales quotas.

Let that sink in for a bit: Salesforce's salespeople didn't have to perform at the bare minimum standard to keep their jobs until a figurative gun was held to the head of their CEO. I can't imagine a $10 donation will make people want to come in to the office (and be accountable) without hardcore peer/middle manager pressure