"CEO Marc Benioff said Agentforce had already signed some 200 corporations as customers in just a week at the end of Q3, however, he made it clear that this figure was just a drop in the bucket. "
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"Citi was out with a client note arguing that the company led by Marc Benioff would easily meet the quarter's consensus but that the share price could suffer from a poor outlook in the back half of the year."
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"We are the number one AI [Customer Relationship Management]," said CEO Marc Benioff on the earnings call. "
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"We had another strong quarter of executing on our profitable growth plan we set in motion last year, delivering $8.7 billion in revenue and again raising our operating-margin guidance for this fiscal year," Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in a statement announcing the results."
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"Consensus sees the company founded and still run by CEO Marc Benioff earning$2.06 in adjusted EPS on $8.72 billion. "
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"Even Apple and Salesforce aren't immune from recent events: Apple has endured a relatively rough patch of disappointing (for them) revenue and iPhone sales while balancing risk/reward with its huge investment in China, and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has threatened to relocate Dreamforce to Las Vegas after more than two decades in his hometown of San Francisco if drug use and homelessness disrupt this year's event."
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"We are very thirsty to make sure that Salesforce is the No. 1 AI CRM, and we have done a lot organically to do that in the last six months," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said to analysts on the company's earnings call, quoted on Yahoo."
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"Also: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff warns upcoming Dreamforce may be last in San Francisco"
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"CEO Marc Benioff said on its Q4 FY23 (2022) earnings call on March 1 that the goal "is to make Salesforce the largest and most profitable software company in the world."
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"Improving profitability is our highest priority, and that really showed up this quarter," co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff said on its recent earnings call."
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"And Chief Executive Marc Benioff said: "Einstein GPT, in combination with our Data Cloud and integrated in all of our clouds as well as Tableau, MuleSoft, and Slack, is another way we are opening the door to the AI future for all our customers, and we'll be integrating with OpenAI at launch." Salesforce shares have soared 40.9% over the past three months, while the Dow has slipped 0.5%."
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"CEO and co-founder Marc Benioff also highlighted that salesforce closed its fiscal year 2023 with operating cash flow at $7.1 billion, up 19% YoY and its highest cash flow in company history. "
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"Marc Benioff tried to get out in front of the activists in January by appointing ValueAct CEO Jason Morfitt to the board."
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"It seems the recent negativity surrounding CEO Marc Benioff's firm was misguided, though it still perplexes most that actor Mathew McConaughey. "
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"On 4th January, Salesforce's CEO Marc Benioff announced in a company memo that it too, would be laying off 10% of the company's total staff."
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"Salesforce Inc (CRM): The Cloud-based software firm is looking to cut costs by $3 billion to $5 billion, Chief Executive Marc Benioff told company insiders this week after announcing layoffs, Fortune reported, citing an audio recording of a meeting."
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"Along with its earnings report in November, Salesforce announced that co-CEO Bret Taylor, a champion of the Slack acquisition, would be leaving the company at the end of January, with Chairman Marc Benioff becoming sole chief executive. "
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"As our revenue accelerated through the pandemic, we hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we're now facing, and I take responsibility for that," Co-Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in a letter to employees that was also filed with the SEC."
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"The cloud-software company said in a news release that founder, co-CEO and Chairman Marc Benioff will resume the sole CEO role on Jan. 31. "
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"Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff told employees in September that the company would help any employees living in Texas to relocate out of the state if they wished to move in response to strict abortionlaws."
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"Wrapping up a multi-hour design session, we were searching for a word to describe a new mindset and approach to enterprise software that answered the question, "How should one build a modern customer relationship management (CRM) platform in today's world, where every company is a digital company that needs more connection with its partners and ecosystem?" My former boss Marc Benioff was fond of challenging his team to think with a beginner's mind. "
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"Salesforce Inc. CEO Marc Benioff tried to buy Twitter in 2016 but backed off after investors balked and management concluded it was a poor strategic fit. "
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"When Texas first passed its new abortion law in September, Salesforce.com Inc.CEO Marc Benioff said the company would help staffers relocatefrom the state."
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"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in September the company would offer assistance to employees who wanted to leave Texas in response to the anti-abortion law. "
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"When Salesforce acquired Tableau for $15.7 billion in 2019, CEO Marc Benioff spoke on the value of better integration across CRM and analytics capabilities. "
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"Co-CEO Marc Benioff teased the idea that Salesforce would buy a ranch to create a new corporate culture epicenter when he spoke at The Wall Street Journal's Future of Everything conference this past May. "
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"And according to Skift, Salesforce.com Inc.'s Marc Benioff has even floated the possibility of building a "ranch-style resort for employees, where they can spend time team-building, take training sessions or even holiday with their families."
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"General Motors CEO Mary Barra,Ford CEO Jim Farley, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett are due to be among the participants in the meeting. "
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"President Joe Biden is slated to meet Wednesday with CEOs from a number of companies as he tries again to push for passage of his CEO Mary Barra, Ford CEO Jim Farley, Microsoft President Brad Smith, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff and TIAA CEO Thasunda Brown Duckett are due to be among the participants in the meeting. "
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"Backers include the Qatar Investment Authority and Heineken family as well as notable tech investors such as Khosla Ventures, Peter Thiel, Salesforce.com co-founder Marc Benioff and Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin."
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"CEO Marc Benioff has credited Weaver on earnings calls this year with improving the company's overall financial operating model, praising her approach to growing its finance team while automating and streamlining many of its internal processes. "
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"The most urgent hurdle is integrating workplace chat app Slack into Salesforce's broader product system, a formidable task that Taylor and co-CEO Marc Benioff acknowledged will extend over the next several quarters. "
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"Salesforce and its CEO Marc Benioff have a well-earned reputation of crusading for social change: Fromits pressure campaign to get Indiana's "bathroom bill" repealed, toits new policy of helping employees leave Texasin the wake of a controversial new abortion law, the company is known for taking a stand on big issues."
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"In August 2020, CEO Marc Benioff said the company was planning to add over 12,000 new jobs in 2021, many falling into the hybrid-work model adopted in the pandemic. "
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"Marc Benioff has set the standard proving that companies can do good and do well concurrently," Johnson said."
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"You.com, which bills itself as the world's first open source search engine, today announced its public beta launch along with $20 million in funding led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff with participation from Breyer Capital, Sound Ventures, Day One Ventures, and others. "
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"His work as a board member of Salesforce came to light in 2016 when leaked emails showed his frequent messages to the C.E.O. Marc Benioff on everything from small talk to potential M.&A. targets."
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"It sold Time magazine to Salesforce.com Inc. founder Marc Benioff and his wife, Lynne, for $190 million. "
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"In Episode 3 of Leading Through Change, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff interviews Julie Sweet, the CEO of Accenture Plc. "
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"And Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has been snapping up properties on the Big Island since as far back as 2000. "
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"That vision has been overseen by Salesforce chief operating officer Bret Taylor, credited by chief exec Marc Benioff himself as the mastermind of the Slack deal. "
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"Beyond any of the product or platform announcements at this week's Dreamforce, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff used the $280 cloud titan's annual mega-event to show off the strength of his team of top execs - and, specifically, their increased latitude and ability to steer the company even when Benioff himself isn't personally involved."
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"I wake up and take a shower, get ready, getting out my iPad, reading my email, my text, I'm starting my day, just like all of you do, and I'm reading a story about how Marc Benioff says his employees can move out of Texas," Benioff said at the event. "
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"He added that he considers Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com an "amazing leader."
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"Salesforce and its CEO Marc Benioff have a well-earned reputation of crusading for social change: From its pressure campaign to get Indiana's "bathroom bill" repealed, to its new policy of helping employees leave Texas in the wake of a controversial new abortion law, the company is known for taking a stand on big issues."
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"Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff told employees on Friday that the company will help them leave Texas if they wish in response to the state's approval of a controversial anti-abortion law."
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"Early backers include billionaire Marc Benioff and Emerson Collective, an investment-philanthropy hybrid founded by Laurene Powell Jobs, according to a statement Thursday."
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"Salesforce founder and CEO Marc Benioff predicted a permanent shift to remote work, warned the pandemic will continue indefinitely, and underlined the importance of vaccines and testing in a Yahoo Finance interview this week."
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"Why It Matters: Harvey's views on the work-from-home play are in contrast to recent comments from Salesforce.com Inc (NYSE:CRM) CEO Marc Benioff's take that a majority of employees want to continue working from home."
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"See Also: Salesforce's Marc Benioff Says Despite CEOs' High Expectations, Many Employees Don't Actually Want To Be Back In The Office"
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"Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff cited "less travel and less real estate and less events" as helping the bottom line in Wednesday's conference call. "
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"They were joined by Alphabet Inc. CEO Sundar Pichai, Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith, Verizon Communications Inc. CEO Hans Vestberg, General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra, International Business Machines Corp. CEO Arvind Krishna, Visa Inc. CEO Alfred Kelly, Uber Technologies Inc. CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Target Corp. CEO Brian Cornell, Salesforce.com Inc. CEO Marc Benioff and others."
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"For his part, Butterfield said Slack can learn from Salesforce's culture of boldness in telling its own story, as exemplified by CEO Marc Benioff himself. "
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"The added buying power is helping Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff finance an effort to expand beyond the marketers and account representatives who use Salesforce apps to manage customers."
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"The event has seen Salesforce execs like CEO Marc Benioff and cofounder Parker Harris share the stage with high-profile speakers like President Barack Obama, with afterparties featuring musical acts like Metallica or Green Day. "
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"Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Marc Benioff and other big investors are beefing up their stakes in a firm that matches companies wanting to offset emissions with timber owners willing to defer harvests for a fee."
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"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called out Facebook over the company's decision to delegate a significant content moderation issue to its "Supreme Court" of independent reviewers."
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"Slack is in the process of being acquired by Salesforce.com Inc., whose Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff has orchestrated more than 60 acquisitions in 21 years."
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"While Salesforce cofounder and CEO Marc Benioff remains the face of the company, another top exec has recently joined him at the forefront: Bret Taylor."
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"Another insider said Selipsky viewed AWS CEO as a lateral move because he would have no shot at the Amazon CEO role in the same way that he had little chance to replace Marc Benioff as the CEO of Salesforce. "
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"Current CEO Marc Benioff would possibly relinquish his CEO title, the report added, avoiding the challenges of the co-CEO arrangement that he had with Keith Block, who left in February 2020 after less than two years on the job."
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"CEO Marc Benioff has focused on diversifying Salesforce's business beyond sales software to other customer touchpoints for the last few years. "
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"We never could have predicted a year ago what was in store, which makes me incredibly proud of how well we pivoted our company to adapt to this pandemic world," Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff said in a statement."
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"Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff has orchestrated more than 60 acquisitions in 22 years, taking his company from dot-com era upstart to a titan of cloud computing. "
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"Last year, as the company began slowly reopening its 160 office worldwide, it created a more "sterile" and "hospital-like" environment, removing light-hearted touches like trinkets on desks and "huge jars of gummy bears everywhere," CEO Marc Benioff told The New York Times in June."
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"When Salesforce announced Mr. Hawkins's planned retirement during an earnings call Dec. 1, Chief Executive Marc Benioff said, "Mark, you set the foundation," adding, "We all know that it takes a great CFO to help scale a company that well."
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"Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff met when Benioff began working at Oracle when he was 23. "
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"And Larry Ellison and Marc Benioff have been friends for decades, even though their respective enterprise software companies are technically rivals."
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"Oracle founder Larry Ellison and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff met when Benioff began working at Oracle when he was 23. "
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"While some feuds, like the one between Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Oracle founder Larry Ellison, appear to be born out of a close friendship and mutual respect, others - like the one between Mark Zuckerberg and Evan Spiegel - started over a spurned acquisition offer."
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"In 2017, during one of those meetings of CEOs and Trump, Salesforce.com's Marc Benioff suggested that Trump make apprenticeships an administration initiative."
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"The Vatican said last month it's joining executives including Bank of America Corp.'s Brian Moynihan and Salesforce.com Inc.'s Marc Benioff in a group that seeks to create "a more equitable and sustainable economic system." Minneapolis-based Thrivent Financial for Lutherans has a fund that invests in companies based on ESG criteria."
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"It was after 11 p.m. and Marc Benioff had been on back-to-back Zoom calls since 6 that morning. "
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""I got an email this morning from [Salesforce CEO] Marc Benioff this morning asking for some help," Chambers noted during the call. "
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"The Vatican said it's joining Bank of America Corp.'s Brian Moynihan, Salesforce.com Inc.'s Marc Benioff and about 25 other leaders in an effort to create "a more equitable and sustainable economic system.""
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"The Vatican said it's joining Bank of America Corp.'s Brian Moynihan, Salesforce.com Inc.'s Marc Benioff and about 25 other leaders in an effort to create "a more equitable and sustainable economic system.""
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"Still, it's not hard to imagine that the final figure had a certain appeal to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and his well-documented flair for the dramatic."
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"Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff called the deal with Slack a "marriage made in heaven" this week. "
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"But instead of continuing on his own path, he and Salesforce.com Inc.CEO Marc Benioff shook hands. "
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""[Slack CEO] Stewart [Butterfield] and his team have built one of the most beloved platforms in enterprise software history, with an incredible ecosystem around it," Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said in the release."
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"Salesforce Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff has orchestrated more than 60 acquisitions in 21 years, taking his company from dot-com era upstart to a titan of cloud computing. "
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"An acquisition of this scale is a bit of a surprise even considering the highly acquisitive company's history-particularly since Chief Executive Marc Benioff observed in late August that "we're not in a good M&A environment." "
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"Former American Express Chief Executive Officer Ken Chenault and Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff are also investors."
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"Salesforce.com Inc. Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff criticized rival SAP SE's business performance in stark terms, rejecting the notion that the German software giant's challenges are an omen for his company."
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"As the U.S. underwent the coronavirus shutdown in March, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff pledged to protect employees from layoffs for 90 days, in a tweet he sent on March 25."
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""The tech companies have got to be regulated in a way that we can ensure and the American consumer can be certain that their privacy is not being compromised," Chief Executive Marc Benioff among Harris's supporters: When she ran for president, he donated $2,700 to her campaign, according to a MarketWatch analysis of contributions from Jan. 1, 2019, to June 30, 2019, as reported to the FEC."
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