{"id":48250,"date":"2021-06-21T11:07:28","date_gmt":"2021-06-21T18:07:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/?p=48250"},"modified":"2021-06-25T09:38:29","modified_gmt":"2021-06-25T16:38:29","slug":"parker-harris-on-the-future-of-the-salesforce-platform","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.salesforce.com\/news\/stories\/parker-harris-on-the-future-of-the-salesforce-platform\/","title":{"rendered":"Parker Harris Is on a Mission: \u201cJust Because It\u2019s Possible to Write Code, Doesn\u2019t Mean You Should Write Code\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

No one knows the Salesforce Platform<\/a> like Parker Harris, Salesforce’s co-founder and Chief Technology Officer. For 22 years it\u2019s been his focus. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And all these years later, his face still lights up when he talks about it.  In between interview questions, chatting with a Salesforce employee who\u2019s been learning more about the Platform, Harris smiles wide and raves, \u201cLightning rocks.\u201d He\u2019s talking, of course, about the Salesforce Lightning Platform which was introduced in 2014 and gave developers and admins a new way to interact with and build apps on Salesforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This afternoon Harris joins the call from his home office in San Francisco. Just over his shoulder is a tabletop collection of surfboard figurines emblazoned with \u20185\u2019, \u201810\u2019, \u201815\u2019 and \u201820′ \u2014 awarded to Salesforce employees for years of service at the company, and evidently a mark of pride for Harris.<\/p>\n\n\n

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