Rank #498
Marc Benioff
Net worth $7.6B
Business software · United States
- Born
- Sep 25, 1964
- Age
- 61
- Source
- Business software
- Residence
- San Francisco, California
- Citizenship
- United States
- Marital status
- Married
- Children
- 2
- Education
- Bachelor of Arts/Science, University of Southern California
Net worth over time
Biography
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff owns about 2% 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 pledged $350 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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