Speaking on the '20VC with Harry Stebbings' podcast, CEO Marc Benioff highlighted the transformative role of AI in the company’s operations. He explained that the substantial productivity gains within Salesforce’s engineering teams have negated the immediate need for additional hires.
Marc Benioff said that Salesforce will match the salary of any OpenAI researcher who quits following the ouster of Sam Altman - but his generous offer found surprisingly few takers.
Employees based out of India have played a key role in terms of working with the global support teams, and engineering and product development teams.
Miguel Milano, who moved back from Celonis, has been appointed Salesforce's chief revenue officer, according to the Insider report, which added that Ariel Kelman, previously the chief marketing officer at Amazon Web Services and Oracle, has been named the new CMO.
Speaking on Bloomberg Television after the stock jumped 16% in late trading, Benioff described the shareholders as “great new investors” with useful feedback. “I enjoy listening to them and getting their ideas.”
Marc Benioff told The New York Times that he jetted off to French Polynesia for a 10-day trip in wake of the mass layoffs at Salesforce.
Marc Benioff, the chief executive of software company Salesforce, said that employees hired during the pandemic have “much lower productivity” than colleagues who joined before 2020.
The CEO said that the company will be loading Boeing 787 with medical supplies and will land it in India next week. The 787 Dreamliner is Boeing's most fuel-efficient plane.
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was a class act throughout the negotiations, but at the end of the day it came down to dollars and cents, said Weiner.Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff was a class act throughout the negotiations, but at the end of the day it came down to dollars and cents, said Weiner.
Twitter shares have lost as much as a third of their value since Oct. 5 on concerns the company has attracted less interest from potential acquirers than previously envisaged. It now has a market capitalization of USD 12 billion.
Companies including Salesforce.com Inc, Walt Disney Co and Alphabet Inc's Google have shown interest in Twitter, which is working with investment banks to evaluate its options, according to people familiar with the matter.
The World Economic Forum (WEF), whose Annual Meeting is under way here, said on Friday that Kim and Benioff were elected as new members of the board. The WEF updated its governing body from Foundation Board to Board of Trustees in August 2015.
Benioff, 47, co-founded salesforce.com in February of 1999 and has served as chairman of the board of directors since its inception.
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