Marc Benioff
RSS Marc BenioffSalesforce.com execs accused of misleading shareholders
News The complaint, introduced by law firm Schiffrin & Barroway, alleges that Salesforce and two executives - Marc Benioff, company founder and CEO, and Steve Cakebread, board director - failed to disclose... [02 Aug 2004]
The weekly Round-Up: 25.06.04
Comment Maybe later in the day salesforce.com's Marc Benioff would call round trying to sell Larry some pegs. It is with a heavy heart and slightly sore head that the Round-Up writes this newsletter. It's not... [25 Jun 2004]
Salesforce.com CEO comments could mean IPO share buy back
News In the case of Salesforce, CEO Marc Benioff allowed a reporter from the New York Times to spend most of a day with him. The New York Times article included quotes from Marc... [07 Jun 2004]
Salesforce.com IPO rocked by delays
News Salesforce and founder Marc Benioff were profiled in a lengthy New York Times article on 9 May. In the article, Benioff side-stepped questions relating to the pending IPO because the US... [18 May 2004]
Siebel steps down as Siebel CEO
News Tom Siebel has been under a tremendous amount of pressure," said Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, who years ago worked with Siebel at Oracle under Ellison, as did Ramsey. Tom Siebel has stepped down as CEO... [04 May 2004]
Salesforce IPO to raise $85m
News After the IPO debuts, CEO Marc Benioff will own a 28.3 per cent stake in the company. Benioff earned a salary of $1 in fiscal 2004 and 2003, in a move similar to other IT chief... [21 Apr 2004]
Salesforce.com boosts float with cautious big boy wins
News At its sixth annual "customer success" day in New York this week, CEO Marc Benioff unveiled two major customer deals and a partnership with IBM and its WebSphere platform that allows greater... [27 Feb 2004]
Salesforce.com lands two megadeals
News The deals are a nod to the fledgling market for corporate applications delivered over the web for a monthly fee, according to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff. For the first time, we're seeing the very... [26 Feb 2004]
Salesforce IPO set to spring into action
News Salesforce executives, including chief executive Marc Benioff, will be in New York at the end of February for a marketing event and benefit concert that the company is co-sponsoring. Software firm... [19 Feb 2004]
Salesforce.com IPO to help the needy
News In a similar vein, while rubbing shoulders with industrial titans in Davos, Switzerland, Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff today released Compassionate Capitalism, billed as 'How corporations can make... [22 Jan 2004]
Salesforce.com files for IPO
News Salesforce.com CEO Marc Benioff set up the company after spending 13 years at Oracle and a number of other top executives have moved across from rival Siebel, which is the biggest CRM vendor and now... [18 Dec 2003]
Siebel sues Salesforce over former exec
News Besides clashing in the sales applications market, there's a personal rivalry between Tom Siebel, chief executive of Siebel, and Marc Benioff, his counterpart at Salesforce. Siebel Systems has filed suit... [24 Nov 2003]
Jobs beats Gates as most important man in tech
News While the dot-com boom may seem a long time ago now, this year sees the inclusion of new and old business creators, the likes of easyGroup's Stelios Haji-Ioannou at 27, Jeff Bezos - on for a fourth consecutive year - at 32,... [02 Oct 2003]
