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Editor\u2019s note: Einstein 1 Platform is now the Salesforce Platform. For the latest, go <\/em>here<\/em><\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Steve Fisher has a long history with computer science, Salesforce, and Marc Benioff. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a high school student in Silicon Valley in the late 1970s, Fisher teamed up with Benioff to develop software games for Apple and Atari computers. The two parted ways when Fisher went to Stanford to study computer science and Benioff went to the University of Southern California to study business. They reunited when Fisher joined Salesforce in 2004 after stints at Apple, AT&T, and NotifyMe Networks, a startup he co-founded. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

After 10 years leading the technical design and development of Salesforce software, Fisher joined eBay as its chief technology officer. But in 2021, he returned to Salesforce and picked up where he left off. Now, Fisher is leading the development of the next generation of CRM and unified data services, including Salesforce Data Cloud<\/a>, a real-time hyperscale data engine that unifies and harmonizes data from any source to create a single view of the customer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Salesforce\u2019s Dan Farber talked with Fisher about the evolution and future of Data Cloud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n