Bio Box: Background, interests, influences of Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff

Bio Box: Salesforce.com’s Marc Benioff

NAME: Marc Benioff

OCCUPATION: Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com Inc.

AGE: 45

HOME: San Francisco

FAMILY: Married

EDUCATION: Bachelor’s degree in business administration, University of Southern California.

WORK HISTORY: Started a video game maker, Liberty Software, while he was still attending Burlingame High School in the San Francisco Bay area. He later became a programmer in Apple Inc.’s Macintosh division and then spent 13 years as a sales and marketing executive at Oracle Corp. He started Salesforce.com Inc. in his apartment in 1999.

FAVORITE QUOTE: “It’s better to burn out than fade away.” — Neil Young.

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