Benioff had a good idea and then modeled the behavior he hoped others would adopt.
Marc Benioff is putting on a typically grand show this week in San Francisco.
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And that means Benioff might have to look elsewhere to fill in his HCM roster.
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First, it underscores the reality that Benioff wants to make Salesforce a legitimate player in HCM.
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With his eye on a RadioShack TRS-80 Model 1 computer, Benioff saved enough to buy it.
Before most app apostles did, Benioff saw that business software was moving to the Web.
So far Benioff has 170, 000 apps written by other firms running on his technology.
Benioff asked Branson about investing into the next generation of entrepreneurs such as Mark Zuckerberg.
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What I first saw as cheesy in Benioff, I now respect as genuine passion.
Undeterred, Salesforce is now staging a speech by Benioff tomorrow morning at the St.
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Consider Salesforce.com, whose voluble founder, Marc Benioff, has a devoted following on Wall Street.
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We challenge all companies to follow the great example of Marc Benioff and the Salesforce Foundation.
The best boss of the past year, by that standard: Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com.
Why buy applications when you can have them on demand through the internet, Mr Benioff asks.
One is Marc Benioff, the chief executive of salesforce.com, which offers "customer relationship management" services.
Marc Andreessen, Marc Benioff and Jim Breyer talked about using tech-driven metrics to improve philanthropic efficacy.
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By that measure, the most effective CEO of all was Marc Benioff of Salesforce.
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Even better for Benioff: bonuses at Salesforce.com have been based, in part, on non-GAAP operating income.
Ellison was an early investor in NetSuite rival Salesforce.com, founded by Marc Benioff, a former Oracle employee.
Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce.com, tweeted recently that Fujitsu has dumped Siebel in favor of Salesforce.
On the third day of Oracle OpenWorld, Benioff showed up to speak, stuffing a hall with followers.
Marc Benioff is the chief executive of this organization that provides software services on a global basis.
And Benioff described how he spends a third of his time in Hawaii to avoid burning out.
Benioff has been savvy about opening his technology to developers who can't be bothered with Salesforce's language.
At 21 Benioff joined Oracle as the only guy answering the company's then new 1-800 sales number.
Benioff's (who is married with one child) larger-than-life reach has been supersized, thanks to Facebook and Twitter.
Chief Marc Benioff gave an interview in which he explicitly did not discuss his company's upcoming IPO.
What Marc Benioff added was how these same elements can benefit any company in the more general case.
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Marc Benioff is making a bet on freemium with the newly-launched version of his collaboration software, called Chatter.
Benioff said he was worried when he presented it but this outlandish idea was well received.
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