Company · Software · founded 1999

Salesforce

Enterprise software company known for customer relationship management software sold as a subscription service. Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff and Frank Dominguez founded it; it bought Slack in 2021.

Includes Slack.

Of the 3 people here linked to Salesforce, 1 is a founder and 2 are still there. 1 of them also appear at 100 Thieves. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.

Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.

3 people at Salesforce

Founder

Role

Founder, chairman and CEO, 1999–now

Also at

Oracle Time Apple 100 Thieves

Source · medium confidence. Co-CEO with Bret Taylor from November 2021; sole CEO again from November 2022.

Still there

Software 2 / 2

Marc Benioff

Co-founder, Chairman and CEO, Salesforce

upper-middle-class · elite · college degree

Board

Role

Director, 2022–now

Also at

PepsiCo The Coca-Cola Company Qwest AT&T CSX United Airlines CBRE Group TelevisaUnivision Archer Aviation Fidelity Investments

Source · high confidence. Salesforce's own bio says he has been a director since January 2022 and was on its global advisory board from December 2020 to December 2021.

Still there

Transportation & Logistics 8 / 6

Oscar Munoz

Former CEO and Chairman, United Airlines

working-class · outsider · graduate degree

Joined by acquisition

Role

CEO of Slack after the Salesforce acquisition, 2020–2023

Also at

Flickr Yahoo

Source · medium confidence. Wikipedia gives 2020 to 2023 and says he left Salesforce in early January 2023; the deal was announced December 2020 and closed July 2021. The profile narrative says he left in December 2022.

Past

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