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Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘You’re going to have to throw a lot against the wall before you figure out what sticks’

The billionaire co-founder of the cloud software group and owner of Time magazine says technology is ‘never good or bad. It’s what you do with it that matters’

Marc Benioff, the co-founder and chief executive of $262bn software giant Salesforce, always has a lot to say.

The decabillionaire is Silicon Valley’s arch salesman and a ubiquitous figure in San Francisco. His 61-storey tower dominates the skyline and Dreamforce annual conference takes over the city for a week in September, where he is flanked by celebrities like Will.i.am and Matthew McConaughey.

Benioff’s fortune has allowed him to become a serial angel investor and mentor to dozens of entrepreneurs in tech. He worked under Larry Ellison at Oracle for a decade before setting up the cloud software group in 1999. In 2018, he and his wife Lynne bought Time magazine from Meredith Corporation for $190mn in cash.

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