EDITOR’S letter Our own magazine. Boom. IN THE 10 YEARS SINCE I BEGAN MY even closer together, to learn from one another AppExchange career (and what turned out to and inspire further collaboration and innovation. be the greatest professional adventure of my It’s not only your go-to resource for any news you life), I’ve had the unparalleled opportunity to may have missed around AppExchange (from the watch the community around Salesforce grow launch of exciting new solutions, to event recaps and evolve into a force to be reckoned with — and pictures, to the latest and greatest thought an ecosystem that IDC predicts will create 3.3 leadership content); it’s also a great opportunity to million new jobs and have an $859-billion new learn more about some of the incredible players business revenues impact by the year 2022. in our ecosystem, and find new ways to take your business further than ever before. And if there’s one thing I’ve learned along this journey, it’s the undeniable truth that people It’s a place to celebrate the exceptional stories work better when they work together. When of success that come out of our ecosystem we collaborate as an open and supportive each and every day. Our Ohana is our strength. ecosystem, we build better solutions, better You are the ones bringing to life the vision LEYLA SEKA businesses, and a better community. upon which Salesforce was built 18 years ago: EVP, APPEXCHANGE A collaborative ecosystem is truly the tide that extending our impact to our employees, our THE EXCHANGE, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF lifts all boats: When we find ways to connect and partners, our customers, and even out into our @LEYLASEKA help each other out, we all excel together. communities. Together, we can find ways to make that community even stronger. The Exchange, our new quarterly AppExchange magazine, is all about bringing this community Appy reading, 3 neat tweets @2ManyHockeys @RoyGilad @JorritDroogsma Happy Saturday trailblazers. Thank you @salesforce #appy #astro #trailblazer #VanSalesforceSaturday and #Appy for the beautiful so proud! @trailhead tweet us! is buzzy with activity and stickers!Happy new year, @appexchange. Thanks we love to hear collaboration even #Appy is 2018 will be an amazing year! @StepOrange what you’re up to. catching up with @trailhead #AppyCalendar @appexchange @appexchange #AppyAdventures 4 THE EXCHANGE SPRING 2018