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He is better off making sure that his company is not facing the end soon. For a company that is in business for almost a decade, they are yet to turn a profit.

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Salesforce turned a profit in 2010 and 2011 (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/is?s=CRM+Income+Statement&ann...).

They were profitable as early as 2005 (http://www.salesforce.com/company/investor/quarterly-results...).

I don't know what income statements you were looking at (just because they lost money in 2012 does not make them an unprofitable company).

They are clearly following the Amazon model and pursuing growth rather than profitability:

http://ycharts.com/companies/CRM/revenues

Exactly. The sheer number of employees CRM is hiring, month after month, is staggering.

Why the down votes? They've nearly doubled the employee count in a couple of years, which is quite impressive at that scale.

The chart you posted was about revenues not profits. Same argument applies to Amazon also but they are at least making some profit. The strategy of pursuing revenue and growth only makes sense for so long. At some point you have to cash that user base and make money.

The chart is about revenue because, as I stated, they are clearly not pursuing profit. I suggest viewing a 10-year graph of their share price to see what investors think of this strategy.

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