Marc Benioff
Marc Benioff
Marc Russell Benioffis an American internet entrepreneur, author and philanthropist. He is the founder, chairman and CEO of Salesforce, a leading enterprise cloud computing company. As of March 2016, he owns approximately $3 billion worth of Salesforce shares. Benioff started Salesforce in March 1999 in a rented San Francisco apartment and defined its mission as The End of Software®. He is “credited with turning the software industry on its head” by using the Internet to “revamp the way software programs...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEntrepreneur
Date of Birth25 September 1964
CountryUnited States of America
I think a critical part of being successful in our industry is having a beginner's mind
The elites - or managers in companies - no longer control the conversation. This is how insurrections start.
This is what our customers are asking for to take them to the next level and free them from the bondage of mainframe and client-server software.
Most of all, I discovered that in order to succeed with a product, you must truly get to know your customers and build something for them.
We believe in the art of war. We are trying to get our competition to attack us with angry, virulent energy, so we can transform that into larger market share.
I don't look at business as a zero-sum game. I don't. I've never seen it play out that way in our industry, and I think you innovate and you add value, deliver value back to customers, and you get value back from the world.
You have chosen the wrong path if it's not fun. And you are probably not taking enough risk if it's not hard and rocky sometimes.
I love software and I love technology.
90% of the world's data was created in the last two years
Life grows relative to one’s investment in it.
The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation.
It's a big leap for us. We think it will show the world the next step for on-demand computing, just as we showed the world the first step.
The era of the traditional software 'load, update and upgrade' business and technology model is over, ... It is time for 'The Business Web.' ... Just as mainframe companies struggled for relevance in the client-server era, Microsoft finds itself in a worse position today, facing not just the obsolescence of a technology model, but a business model as well.
As we talk about devices, you should never forget that behind every one there is a person - a customer. It“s not the Internet of Things, but the Internet of People - of customers. We are moving to one-to-one relationships.