7 Quotes & Sayings By Marc Benioff

Marc Benioff is the Chairman and CEO of Salesforce.com, one of the world's largest and most successful cloud computing companies. Salesforce.com has more than 25,000 employees, with customers including American Express, AT&T, Comcast, Chase Bank, Disney, Electronic Arts, HP, Oracle, PepsiCo and Wal-Mart Stores. In a short time at his company's helm Marc has been recognized as one of Fortune magazine's "40 Under 40" leaders and as one of the "50 Most Powerful People in Business" by Working Mother magazine. In 2007 he was named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young Read more

Marc is a member of the Board of Directors of the San Francisco Giants and is on the Advisory Boards of Stanford's Graduate School of Business and Stanford University's Graduate School of Education. He also serves on the Board of Trustees for both University of California - Santa Barbara and Virginia Commonwealth University. When he is not helping to lead Salesforce.com or meeting with his friend Mark Zuckerberg from Harvard about education reform, Marc spends time with his wife Lynne and their two children at home in North Beach.

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The world is being re-shaped by the convergence of social, mobile, cloud, big data, community and other powerful forces. The combination of these technologies unlocks an incredible opportunity to connect everything together in a new way and is dramatically transforming the way we live and work. Marc Benioff
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Learning how to interact with customers is something that anyone starting any business must master. It's an amazing opportunity to be able to learn the ropes at an established company and then employ your expertise at your own company. Marc Benioff
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The only constant in the technology industry is change. Marc Benioff
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In school all I wanted to do was build technology. That's what I loved. Marc Benioff
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Although I loved working on technology - I've always been a computer geek at heart - my professors encouraged me to get a real-world job working with customers. Marc Benioff
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The future of communicating with customers rests in engaging with them through every possible channel: phone, e-mail, chat, Web, and social networks. Customers are discussing a company's products and brand in real time. Companies need to join the conversation. Marc Benioff