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Bret Steven Taylor (born 1980) is an American computer programmer and entrepreneur. He is most notable for leading the team that co-created Google Maps and his tenures as the CTO of Facebook (now Meta Platforms), as the chairman of Twitter, Inc.'s board of directors prior to its acquisition by Elon Musk, and as the co-CEO of Salesforce (alongside co-founder Marc Benioff).
The deal was later reported to have been abandoned. [122] In September 2024, Salesforce acquired Own, a provider of backup services, for $1.9 billion, giving Own's about 1000 employees the deadline of January 31, 2025 in those positions. [123] Salesforce has also acquired PredictSpring and Tenyx in 2024. [124]
Sarah Franklin joined people management platform Lattice in January after 15 years at Salesforce, the tech behemoth that, she tells Fortune, she joined when it was at a stage similar to Lattice ...
As companies look to adapt and adopt in the fast-paced world of technology, Salesforce.com Co-CEO Keith Block noted that there are three key pillars of digital transformation.
A November 2013 hackathon run by Salesforce.com, billed as having the largest-ever grand prize at $1 million, was accused of impropriety after it emerged that the winning entrants, a two-person startup called Upshot, had been developing the technology that they demoed for over a year and that one of the two was a former Salesforce employee. [5]
ServiceNow, Adobe, and Alibaba could generate bigger long-term gains.
Salesforce Marketing Cloud is a provider of digital marketing automation and analytics software and services. It was founded in 2000 under the name ExactTarget. The company filed for an IPO in 2007, but withdrew its filing two years later and raised $145 million in funding. It acquired CoTweet, Pardot, iGoDigital and Keymail Marketing. In 2012 ...
Benioff worked at Oracle for 13 years in a variety of sales, marketing, and product development roles. [3] At 23, he was named Oracle's Rookie of the Year, and later became the youngest vice president in the company's history. [3] Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999, [16] while working from a San Francisco apartment. He defined its mission in a ...