AI & ML
AI assistants to systems that can handle complex requests and take independent action.
“ The demand for Agentforce has been amazing – no other company comes close to offering this complete AI solution for enterprises,” Marc adds.“ We’ re seamlessly bringing together AI, data, apps and automation with humans to reshape how work gets done.”
From disruption to transformation Benioff’ s vision has consistently anticipated major technological shifts.
When enterprise software required substantial infrastructure investment, he pioneered the delivery of software through web browsers – now known as cloud computing.
Through strategic product development and acquisitions, Salesforce expanded from sales tracking to a complete Customer 360 platform that unifies data across sales, marketing and customer service systems.
“ When I look back at 2019, we had really gone through three huge waves of technology: cloud computing, mobile and social,” Marc says.
“ And now we are going into the fourth wave, which is probably the most important one in AI, which is not just the most important technology of our lifetime, but probably the most important in any lifetime.”
PIONEER AND INNOVATOR
A member of the World Economic Forum( WEF) Board of Trustees, Marc serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF’ s Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco.
Marc is also the owner and co-chair of TIME and is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change.
Before launching Salesforce, Marc spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation, where he was the youngest vice president in the company’ s history.
When he was 14 years old, he sold his first piece of software, How to Juggle, for US $ 75. He founded his first company, Liberty Software – which created video games – at the age of 15.
Marc received a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, where he is on its Board of Trustees.
In 2014, USC awarded Benioff an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters.
Benioff was named Innovator of the Decade by Forbes, and is recognised as one of the World’ s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review.
For his leadership on equality, Marc has been honoured by GLAAD, the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award.
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