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Marc Benioff
Co-founding Salesforce and helping popularise business software delivered through the cloud.
Salesforce · Behind the Cloud
- Born
- 25 September 1964
- Birthplace
- San Francisco, United States
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Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff is an American technology entrepreneur and Salesforce co-founder. His career has combined enterprise software, investment and philanthropy.
Early life
Teenage programmer
Created and sold computer games before university.
Business studies
Graduated from the University of Southern California in 1986.
Career
- 1986–1999
Oracle
Worked in sales, marketing and product roles at the software company.
- 1999
Salesforce founded
Co-founded a business offering customer-management software online.
- 2018 onward
Media ownership
Bought Time magazine with his wife Lynne while continuing his technology career.
Selected work
Salesforce
Helped establish a major subscription-based business-software company.
Behind the Cloud
Co-wrote a book explaining the company’s development.
Trailblazer
Published a book on business leadership and social responsibility.
Beyond work
Children’s hospitals
He and Lynne Benioff have made major gifts to healthcare institutions.
Corporate giving
Promoted a model donating company equity, employee time and products to charitable work.
Sources & photo credit
Life, career and references ↗Institutional source ↗Photo: Salesforce.. CC BY-SA 2.0 · Original image. Cropped and displayed in monochrome.
