Marc Benioff

Marc Russell Benioff is an American Internet entrepreneur with a net worth of $6.5 billion as of July 2019. He is the founder, chairman and co-CEO of Salesforce, an enterprise cloud computing company. As of August 2019, he owned 4.14% of Salesforce shares, worth $4.33 billion.

• Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff owns about 4% 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.