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
When we heard the news this morning, it was clear to me we're moving up to the next level. Consolidation in the client-server computing industry is opening the door for software on demand.
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.
We're trying to provide a platform for applications. We think that's the next level. We are trying to become the Windows of the internet.
You must always be able to predict what's next and then have the flexibility to evolve.
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.
Please note that most - but not all - Siebel employees are currently eligible for hire at salesforce.com today and that the recruiting department will screen for eligibility,
Like some of our best ideas, trust.salesforce.com was inspired by our conversations with customers. We have a tradition of leading the on-demand revolution with breakthrough innovations, and we hope that trust.salesforce.com will take its place among some of our best new products.
I went to the Big Island of Hawaii and sat in a house on a point by the ocean. I thought about some of the amazing things I had seen recently in the industry. Two of the most spectacular were the emergence of the browser 18 months before, and Amazon.com.
January was not our best month ever, far from it, and that was disappointing.
We haven't seen any loss of customers from any service interruptions. A lot of the problems were around a new data centre, and we believe a lot of those issues are resolved.
They have created a culture of acquisition instead of innovation. It's a lot easier just to write big checks than it is to innovate.
Following the proposed acquisition of Siebel by Oracle many existing Siebel employees may be concerned about their career prospects, ... We want to offer them an alternative to an environment of declining commissions, confused customers and uncertainty around career viability.
This is a fulfillment of our vision of 'The Business Web,' enabling companies of any size to manage, organize and share all of their business information on demand.
Our customers are not just customizing fields and tabs--they are building their own applications across a wide range of functional areas.