Marc Benioff

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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[1]. 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.

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  • Compassionate Capitalism: How Corporations Can Make Doing Good an Integral Part of Doing Well with Karen Southwick (2004)
  • The Business of Changing the World with Carlye Adler (2006)

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  1. ^ Salesforce.com Developers Conference keynote, May 21, 2007