Marc Benioff Short biography
Marc Russell Benioff is an American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist. He is best known as the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of the software company Salesforce, as well as being the owner of Time magazine since 2018.
Benioff was born in San Francisco, California, in 1964. He is the grandson of Marvin Lewis, a California trial attorney and one-time member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors who championed the creation of the BART system. Benioff grew up in Hillsborough and graduated from Burlingame High School in 1982. He received a Bachelor of Science in business administration from the University of Southern California in 1986.
After graduating from college, Benioff worked at Oracle Corporation for 13 years in a variety of sales, marketing, and product development roles. In 1999, he founded Salesforce in a San Francisco apartment. The company went public in 2004 and has since become one of the most successful cloud computing companies in the world.
Benioff is also a well-known philanthropist. In addition to founding the Salesforce Foundation, which uses a '1-1-1' approach to corporate philanthropy, he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to various organizations and charities. He is also a vocal advocate for social justice and environmental issues.
