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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Business
Hazel Sheffield

The proof that the San Francisco tech scene has jumped the shark

huck Robbins CEO of Cisco Sytems (L) and Marc Benioff speak at the Salesforce keynote during Dreamforce 2015 (Getty Images)

Salesforce's lesser known co-founder has reinvented himself as 'Lightning Man'.

Parker Harris crashed the stage during a presentation by the Salesforce CEO on Wednesday wearing a blue, grey and white onesie and clutching a lightning bolt.

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was in the middle of giving a keynote speech at the company’s annual customer conference in San Francisco, which is the largest tech employer in the city.

Benioff was just getting into a long keynote speech after being introduced by none other than Stevie Wonder, when Parker Harris, his lesser known co-founder, got onstage dressed as 'Lightning Man', Business Insider reports.

The spectacle was all part of a product push for Salesforce’s new service for app developers, called Lightning, apparently.

Salesforce is a cloud computing company with 5000 employees in San Francisco as of January 2015.

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