Marc Benioff
San Francisco, California
Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California
United States
Salesforce.com
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business software, Self Made
$6,600,000,000
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#239 Billionaires 2019
#84 Forbes 400 2018
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff owns about 5% of the cloud computing software firm he cofounded in 1999. Before Salesforce, he spent 13 years at database software giant Oracle as a protege of Larry Ellison. Salesforce was a pioneer in hosting its software online, rather than installing it in clients' computer systems.He's an angel investor in dozens of tech startups and a prolific philanthropist.Benioff and his wife Lynne have given $325.5 million to University of California, San Francisco, for its children's hospitals and research.
At 17, Benioff developed and sold Atari video games, and earned enough to pay his way to USC.Benioff spoke out against laws permitting discrimination against LGBT people in North Carolina, Georgia and Indiana.In May 2018, Benioff celebrated construction of the 1,070-foot tall Salesforce Tower in San Francisco.
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