At TeleSoft, he manages capital commitments of $625+ million and has established Corporate Partnerships […] "That is all we can do, while also enjoying every moment of life."
"They have to be for all their stakeholders, whether it's for their schools, whether it's for the environment, whether it's for the fundamental equality for every human being."
And last year, he feuded publicly with Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey over a payroll tax on San Francisco companies to raise money for homeless programs. In a forthcoming book, “Trailblazer,” due out Oct. 15, 2019, Benioff calls on activist CEOs to lead a revolution that puts the welfare of people and the planet ahead of profits. Experienced Salesforce/Marketing Cloud Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. ... Salesforce.com, and Symphony Technology Group. Arjun Gupta is the Executive Chairman of Nexant, and Chief Believer at TeleSoft Partners, a special situations venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.
Over the last decade, he has overseen investing in and helping build 60+ private companies, resulting in 35 acquisitions and IPOs to date. Danhof derided Benioff as "a social engineer acting as a CEO." Chandan Kumar Raj Founder & CTO at B-FIBER & Founder&Director at INDTEL INFRA PVT LTD. New Delhi und Umgebung, Indien. It wasn't until 2015, though, that Benioff stepped beyond philanthropy into social activism. Benioff has also been outspoken on the need for a national privacy law to prevent technology from digging deeper into people’s lives. "You want to walk down paths others aren't willing to walk and, you know, you want to be of consequence in life."
Unlike many other programming prodigies, though, Benioff finished college, earning a bachelor's degree in business from the University of Southern California.
Arjun Gupta - Participant. About 8,500 other companies, including Google, have adopted similar philanthropic arms since then. Benioff's fans insist he genuinely wants to steer CEOs in a new direction. Earlier in his career, Arjun was a Strategy Consultant for hightech clients with McKinsey & Company, and a Software Engineer with Tektronix, Inc. Yet there are signs that the job of CEOs is extending beyond its traditional focus on increasing corporate profits and stock prices. He credits his father, Russell, who owned a chain of dress shops, for teaching him about the value of hard work. So he’s urging fellow CEOs to help fix a “train wreck” of inequality his industry helped create.
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Since then, Benioff has spoken out against Georgia and North Carolina for passing laws that would allow LGBT discrimination. Kandarp Satuniya.
All of this is costing Salesforce money and lowering profits — a financial sacrifice that Benioff shouldn't be making as CEO, said Justin Danhof of the Free Enterprise Project, a shareholder activist group with a conservative bent. "Even if they are very well intentioned, they are so powerful it becomes a question of whether they should have this kind of voice," Cordelli said.
And people tend to follow Benioff, as though he's a rock star, said Metallica drummer Lars Ulrich, a rock star himself. He began taking apart and reassembling his family's telephone when he was 4 and spent most of his teenage years learning to program computers. And 145 CEOs, including the leaders of Twitter and Yelp, called on Congress to pass tougher background checks on gun purchases and enable courts to remove firearms from people flagged as potential threats. Chandan Kumar Raj. In this photo taken Tuesday, Oct. 30, 2018, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at a luncheon in San Francisco. Arjun Gupta Salesforce/Marketing Cloud Consultant at Infosys. In a forthcoming book, "Trailblazer," due out Oct. 15, Benioff calls on activist CEOs to lead a revolution that puts the welfare of people and the planet ahead of profits.