Marc Benioff
1964 – ? American entrepreneur, Salesforce co-founder
Salesforce founder and cloud software pioneer.
- Religion
- Jewish; practices Buddhist-influenced mindfulness.
- Affiliations
- Co-founded and leads Salesforce; owns Time magazine. Worked at Oracle for over a decade before founding Salesforce.
Marc Russell Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle under mentor Larry Ellison before founding Salesforce in 1999 to sell software as a service. He built it into a leading enterprise cloud company. He bought Time magazine in 2018.
Connections
- mentor of Larry Ellison — Benioff worked under Ellison at Oracle before founding Salesforce.
- student of Larry Ellison — Worked under Ellison at Oracle, which later invested in Salesforce.