Marc Benioff

“We raised money last year, actually into a, from led by Mark Benioff of Salesforce and several other well-known angels in the Bay Area... We raised approximately a million dollars... It was a priced round.”

“Durga used to work at Salesforce. He, actually, he didn't know Mark, but he reached out to Mark once we decided he's going to do a startup, and Mark was interested. He liked the idea. He liked our data science angle, because we wanted to fix the engagement usi…”

“No.”

“Not even close.”

“The ones that go all the way and succeed, you know, you can pick your favorites, maybe Mark Benioff, very, very rare breed. It takes certainly a lot of skill and sort of a unique talent. So I think it is, you do need some self-awareness to know when someone el…”

“This is not a space Salesforce wants to be in. And it's a subspace within the space. They don't want to be in the staffing industry. We have new corporate and staffing, but it's still not a space they want to be in.”

“Well, he raised a shitload more money than me.”

“Not in acquisitions talks with anyone. We're not building this business to sell it.”

“And he's got a whole office of the chairman, like, 30 people, chief of staff, that just helped him drive his initiatives and his impact.”

“I've always got my eye on, on, on Mark Benioff. Cause he bought my biggest competitor for. Two hundred and fifty million bucks or so.”

“In 2009, Marc Benioff reached out to us and he said, I wanna buy your company. We're gonna buy, pay you ninety-five million. I said, that sounds good, let's do it. He strung us along for a few months finally ended up buying ExactTarget a few years later. Walke…”