Marc Benioff is Chairman and C.E.O. of Salesforce. A pioneer of cloud computing, Benioff founded the company in 1999 with a vision to create a new kind of enterprise software company, with a new technology model based in the cloud, a new pay-as-you-go business model and a new integrated corporate philanthropy model. Under his leadership, Salesforce has grown from a groundbreaking idea into a Fortune 500 company, the fastest-growing top five software company in the world and the largest CRM company.

For its revolutionary approach, Salesforce has been named one of the World’s Most Innovative Companies seven years in a row by Forbes magazine, one of Fortune’s World’s Most Admired Companies in the software industry five years in a row, and a Fortune Best Company to Work For nine years in a row.

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