In this success post, we are going to share the story of Marc Benioff, a renowned American philanthropist, author, and successful internet entrepreneur. He is the best known for being the founder, Chairman, and CEO of Salesforce, the global popular cloud computing service Provider Company.
Marc Benioff Childhood
Marc Benioff was born on the 25th of September in 1964 in San Francisco, California. He was born into a Jewish family.
In the year 1982, Marc graduated from Burlingame High School. He went on to attend the University of Southern California and earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration degree in the year 1986.
Marc Benioff Career
Marc Benioff sold his first application, while still in high school for around $75. At the age of 15 years, Marc founded the Liberty Software company, which focused on creating and selling computer games for the Atari 8-bit console, as well as some other popular video game consoles at the time.
At the age of 16, March was already a successful entrepreneur with Epyx publishing his crypt of the Undead, Escape from Vulcan’s Isle, the Nightmare, and King Arthur’s Heir. This helped him earn a royalty of around $1500 a month, which helped him to pay his way through college.
At the time of his studies at the University of Southern California, Marc was inspired highly by Apple founder Steve Jobs and went on to do his internship as ‘Assembly Language Programmer’ for the Macintosh division of the computer supergiant.
March worked at Oracle for around 13 years in various capacities, from sales and marketing to product development as well. At the age of 23 years, March was named Oracle ‘Rookie of the year’ and just around three years later, at the age of 26 years, was promoted to the position of Vice President, the youngest in the company history to hold the title.
Marc Benioff Achievements
Marc Benioff is globally renowned for his farsightedness and leadership qualities, as well as for his ground-breaking ideas and innovations.
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