Yeah IMO its a red flag to compare yourself to Salesforce unless you: * Offer a managed database system that can support common ETL workloads, custom fields, e

Yeah IMO its a red flag to compare yourself to Salesforce unless you: * Offer a managed database system that can support common ETL workloads, custom fields, event hooks like post-save, etc * A embeded-DSL for scripting custom actions, no an API does not replace this functionality * Consultants/Support-engineering/and other escape valves when a really important business process needs to get fixed or built NOW * A lot more And frankly many startups don't have the muscle for this. Its not easy to do database work and its not easy to create functional (not necessarily good, just functional) DSLs and programming languages. These are harder computer science problems that take real talent to solve well. There are valid reasons Salesforce has the market cap it does.