• Forbes, Wednesday, March 30, 2016 4:22 AM

Adam Blitzer, executive vice president of Salesforce Sales Cloud can still remember when every sale counted. In an interview with Forbes, Blitzer described his a ha moment while eating lunch at Wendy’s in 2007. "I was eating a chicken sandwich and looking at the tray liner for something to read. And that is what got me thinking — Wendy’s was using all of its free white space, including the tray liner, for its marketing and branding. They were being smart and maximizing the space they had. And I thought, why couldn’t I do that with email?"Blitzer joined Salesforce as part of the Pardot acquisition. This company was early in the email-marketing signature space, and Blitzer was an advocate.

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