Marc Russell Benioff is considered as an one of the greatest tech entrepreneur, founder, CEO and chairman of the Salesforce. He is well known author as well as a philanthropist.
He was born to a Jewish family on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California. His father, Russell Benioff who started a chain of apparel stores and inspired his son to become a business leader.
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He graduated from Burlingame high school in 1982 and he pursued his arts of science/administration from USC(university of southern California) in 1986.
In the beginning of his career, he started as a programmer in a apple In Macintosh division under Steve job and he thought of continuing his career as a programmer but as per the suggestion from a professor of USC to got into customer related work. He joined Oracle company and he used to work for the Sales, Marketing and Product development.
He became an expert in the Sales, Marketing and Product development after working for over 13 years at Oracle. Later he got promoted as vice president at the age of 21 years old. He is the one of the youngest vice President of the company.
Then, he started the company Salesforce in 1990 which eventually became one of the fastest growing and largest CRM (customer relationship management) platform. With a initial amount of $ 1.2million and his business turned up to net worth of $4 billion with the 18000 employees
Now, Salesforce has different products such as
In 2000, he invented the 1-1-1 model, main motive of this model is 1% of employee hours, 1% of its profit,1% of the product to the non profit organizations ( charitable trust) and more than 700 companies adopting this policy. He is helping children health care through USCF(United San Francisco of California) and in 2010 he donated $100 million for USCF to build a hospital and hospital named as benioff USCF and also improving public education.
He was born to a Jewish family on September 25, 1964 in San Francisco, California. His father, Russell Benioff who started a chain of apparel stores and inspired his son to become a business leader.
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In the beginning of his career, he started as a programmer in a apple In Macintosh division under Steve job and he thought of continuing his career as a programmer but as per the suggestion from a professor of USC to got into customer related work. He joined Oracle company and he used to work for the Sales, Marketing and Product development.
He became an expert in the Sales, Marketing and Product development after working for over 13 years at Oracle. Later he got promoted as vice president at the age of 21 years old. He is the one of the youngest vice President of the company.
Then, he started the company Salesforce in 1990 which eventually became one of the fastest growing and largest CRM (customer relationship management) platform. With a initial amount of $ 1.2million and his business turned up to net worth of $4 billion with the 18000 employees
Now, Salesforce has different products such as
- Salescloud
- Service Cloud
- Data Cloud (including Jigsaw)
- Marketing Cloud
- Community Cloud (including Chatter)
- Analytics Cloud
- App Cloud
As Salesforce turns offline software services into online services using cloud computing, Tech Industry name him as a "leader for the end of the software and called as king of cloud computing".
He is the author of the three books: compassionate capitalism ( 2004), the world (2006) and the business of changing (2009).
Apart from that he is great human: He fought for LGBT against discrimination laws in Indiana and Georgia and he came up with men and women should pay equally depending on their efforts
He is the author of the three books: compassionate capitalism ( 2004), the world (2006) and the business of changing (2009).
Apart from that he is great human: He fought for LGBT against discrimination laws in Indiana and Georgia and he came up with men and women should pay equally depending on their efforts
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