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👤 '''Marc Russell Benioff''' (born 25 September 1964) is an American business executive and philanthropist who is co-founder, chairman and chief executive officer of cloud software company Salesforce. Under his leadership Salesforce popularised the delivery of customer relationship management software as a subscription service over the internet and grew from a San Francisco start-up founded in 1999 into one of the world's largest enterprise software companies. He is also known for advocating a model of stakeholder capitalism and for integrating philanthropy into corporate strategy through Salesforce's 1-1-1 model and extensive personal and family giving.<ref name="BIAfrica">{{cite web |url=https://africa.businessinsider.com/news/the-rise-of-marc-benioff-the-ceo-of-salesforce-and-owner-of-time-magazine/nskjh2j |title=The rise of Marc Benioff, the CEO of Salesforce and owner of Time Magazine |publisher=Business Insider Africa |accessdate=2025-11-20}}</ref><ref name="WikipediaMB">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Benioff |title=Marc Benioff |publisher=Wikipedia |accessdate=2025-11-20}}</ref><ref name="USCToday">{{cite web |url=https://today.usc.edu/marc-and-lynne-benioffs-20-million-gift-to-usc-supports-research-and-treatment-innovations-to-fight-cancer/ |title=Marc and Lynne Benioff’s $20 million gift to USC supports research and treatment innovations to fight cancer |publisher=USC Today |accessdate=2025-11-20}}</ref>
☁️ '''Cloud growth and activism.''' Under Benioff's direction Salesforce survived the dot-com crash, expanded internationally and eventually joined the Dow Jones Industrial Average, with revenue rising to nearly US$35 billion by fiscal 2024 and the company's market value reaching about US$250 billion by the mid-2020s. The appreciation of Salesforce shares has made Benioff a multibillionaire, with wealth estimates around US$10 billion, and he has emerged as a prominent "activist CEO", using his platform to campaign on issues such as LGBTQ rights, homelessness and inequality and to argue that large corporations must accept broader social responsibilities.<ref name="MotleyFool">{{cite web |url=https://www.fool.com/investing/2024/03/27/if-invested-2k-salesforce-2004-how-much-today/ |title=If You Invested $2,000 in Salesforce in 2004, This Is How Much You Would Have Today |publisher=The Motley Fool |accessdate=2025-11-20}}</ref><ref name="StockAnalysis">{{cite web |url=https://stockanalysis.com/stocks/crm/market-cap/ |title=Salesforce (CRM) Market Cap & Net Worth |publisher=StockAnalysis |accessdate=2025-11-20}}</ref>
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