Marc Benioff
14 statements across 3 episodes · 6 bullish · 3 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 26, 2024 by Tamar Yehoshua · said 36 times in 7 episodes since 2023 · across every show →
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brought up most by Lenny Rachitsky (14), Tamar Yehoshua (11), Jason Lemkin (5), Andy Raskin (5), Bret Taylor (1)
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2026 5 mentions in 1 episode
2025 14 mentions in 4 episodes 4 per episode
- From managing people to managing AI: The leadership skills everyone needs now | Julie Zhuo
- He saved OpenAI, invented the “Like” button, and built Google Maps: Bret Taylor (Sierra)
- How Intercom rose from the ashes by betting everything on AI | Eoghan McCabe (founder and CEO)
- From ChatGPT to Instagram to Uber: The quiet architect behind the world’s most popular products
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2024 12 mentions in 1 episode
2023 5 mentions in 1 episode
Everything said about Marc Benioff, oldest first
Sep 26, 2024 positive
Dec 22, 2024 bullish
Dec 22, 2024
Benioff: Product launch strategy comes from finding winning tactics first
“And the message is really in the medium here, which is that I am looking to try to find the winning tactic and turn it into a winning strategy. I don't know actually which one of those things is gonna be the most important thing in launching this product. So I…”
Dec 22, 2024 neutral
Dec 22, 2024 positive
Dec 22, 2024
Benioff gifted AppStore.com to Steve Jobs, who doubted its potential
“Steve, I'm gonna give you something you don't have, but maybe you'll need, which is the AppStore.com URL, AppStore.com, and the trademark for AppStore, because after that meeting we had, like, six years ago, I ended up trademarking these things and buying this…”
Dec 22, 2024
Salesforce hired fake protesters outside Siebel's 2000 conference to drive hype
“We hired a bunch of actors, and they were doing this event in San Francisco, and, you know, San Francisco is very woke, so, you know, nobody, you know, people expect a protest, a good protest. So we had, got some picket signs at Home Depot and made some signs,…”
Dec 22, 2024 negative
Dec 22, 2024 positive
Benioff: Being the sole provider in a market is a warning sign
“If you're the only one and no one else is working on it, you've got a problem, actually. So, you don't want to be the only one. You want to be in a market. You don't want to be one company offering a solution and the only one. You want to be in a competitive m…”
Dec 22, 2024 positive
Dec 22, 2024 positive
Marc Benioff: Early angel investments included Siebel Systems and Saba Software
“I had done some angel investing, and it was kind of a cool moment where some of my companies started to go public, including Siebel Systems and others, and Saba Software, and people I had met at Oracle, like Tom Siebel and Bobby Azdani”
Dec 22, 2024 negative
Dec 22, 2024
Benioff wrote first native assembly programs for Macintosh 68000 development system
“And I wrote the first native assembly language on the Macintosh. It's kind of a crazy thing to be able to say, but it's, True that I was writing these example programs for this Macintosh 68,000 development system in, on these, you know, Apple headquarter build…”
Aug 21, 2025 bearish