Here's The Real Reason Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff Paid $390 Million For A Startup Valued At $245 Million (CRM)

The billionaire CEO of Salesforce.com Marc Benioff is spending $390 million on a three-year-old startup because two of his friends told him to. During the quarterly conference call with Wall Street analysts on Thursday, Benioff explained how the company's latest acquisition of RelateIQ came about. "I have a dinner every month that I attend with 10 to 15 CEOs of mostly very strong and emerging companies. ... And two of them looked me in the eye - and this never happened before - and they said, 'Y...