3. Categories

      Functional Areas: Funding, Legal, Marketing, Recruiting
      Skills: Leadership, Productivity

  4. About Marc Benioff

    Marc Russell Benioff (born September 25 1964, San Francisco, California) is Chairman & CEO of Salesforce.com, a leading CRM company he founded in March 1999.

    Benioff prominently espouses his philanthropic philosophy, with a book titled Compassionate Capitalism, and the July 2000 launch of the Salesforce Foundation, a vehicle through which "the company contributes 1 percent of profits, 1 percent of equity, and 1 percent of employee hours back to the communities it serves." On September 2006, he released his second book, The Business of Changing the World.

    Prior to founding salesforce.com, Benioff was at Oracle Corporation for 13 years in a variety of executive positions in sales, marketing, and product development. Before joining Oracle, Benioff worked at Apple Computer, and, while still in high school, founded Liberty Software, which specialized in microcomputer games. Benioff received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.

    Benioff has an affinity towards Eastern philosophy: he meditates and practices yoga. One of his favorite books is Sun Tzu's The Art of War, a popular military treatise on strategy that teaches winning without fighting. date=March 2008

  7. Quotes

    1. “ You're just a rent-a-rapper, your rhymes are minute-maid I'll be here when it fade to watch you flip like a renegade ”
      In Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

  1. Marc Benioff

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    2. How to use PR Firms at Startups

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Feb 18 2012) Marketing

      How to use PR Firms at Startups ...n a startup this is a mistake. Heck, even in a big, successful company like Salesforce.com the CEO, Marc Benioff, still takes many of the interviews himself. The reality is that a journalist who’s writing a story... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Apple   Mark Suster

    3. Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way

      Explore bothsidesofthetable.com (Oct 22 2011)

      Lead, Follow or Get the Fuck Out of the Way ...aunched the iPad many people were saying, “I don’t get it, it’s just a big iPhone” or similar. When Marc Benioff declared “the end of software” industry insiders scoffed. When Dave McClure announced “500 Startups... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Mark Suster   Dave McClure

    4. The Benefits Of The Perfect Independent Board Member

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Aug 9 2011)

      ...that her being on the HubSpot board sent a positive signal to the folks at Sequoia, Salesforce.com (Marc Benioff specifically asked about her during our pitch to him), Matrix Partners, etc. The only bad news in ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Sequoia Capital   General Catalyst

    5. Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis

      Explore mixergy.com (May 25 2011)

      Launching And Scaling In A Down Economy – with Bill Loumpouridis ...and staying close to your customers, I mean you see this at some of the very largest organizations, Marc Benioff, Michael Dell, these CEOs, they all have client relationships. They are to some degree customer fac... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Palm   Oracle   Marc Benioff

    6. 9 Ways To Disrupt And "Hipmunk" An Industry

      Explore On Startups by Dharmesh Shah (Feb 28 2011)

      ...to stir the pot. Look at Salesforce. They proclaimed the end of downloadable desktop software and Marc Benioff was no stranger to letting the world know the companies that are his enemy. His spat with Microsof... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Microsoft   Y-Combinator

    7. Interspire: How Two Programmers Who Met In A Chat Room Bootstrapped A $10 Mil eCommerce Company – With Mitchell Harper

      Explore mixergy.com (Dec 9 2010) Marketing

      Interspire: How Two Programmers Who Met In A Chat Room Bootstrapped A $10 Mil eCommerce Company – With Mitchell Harper ...Andrew: Who have you done that with? Who have you modeled? Mitch: Everyone. My biggest influence is Marc Benioff from SalesForce. His book, “Behind the Cloud” pretty much gave me a playbook on which we can build ... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Marc Benioff   Australia   AOL

    8. Why We Prefer Founding CEOs

      Explore ben's blog (Apr 28 2010)

      ...l Galvin * nVidia—Jen-Hsun Huang * Oracle—Larry Ellison * Peoplesoft—Dave Duffield * Salesforce.com—Marc Benioff * Seagate—Al Shugart * Siebel—Tom Siebel * Sony—Akio Morita * Sun—Scott McNeely * VMware—Diane Gree... (Read Full Article)

      Mentions:   Jeff Bezos   Oracle   Larry Ellison

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