Marc Benioff
Chair and CEO, Salesforce.
Founded Salesforce in 1999.
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Profile
Marc Benioff is a co-founder, the chair and the chief executive of Salesforce, the customer relationship management software company, which he started in March 1999 from an apartment in San Francisco. Salesforce sells its software by subscription over the web; it went public in 2004, and its acquisitions include Tableau and Slack. Benioff has also owned Time magazine since 2018.
He was born in San Francisco in 1964. At 15 he founded Liberty Software, which made games for Atari 8-bit computers, and while studying business administration at the University of Southern California he interned at Apple as a programmer. After graduating in 1986 he spent 13 years at Oracle in sales, marketing and product roles, and became the youngest vice president in its history.
Sources
- Marc Benioff Wikipedia
- Salesforce Wikipedia
- Leadership Salesforce
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Photo
Marc Benioff smiling, in a bright blue shirt, outdoors with hills behind him. Photograph by Christie Hemm Klok for Salesforce, via Wikimedia Commons, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. Cropped from the original by Ceolumen and shared under the same licence.