Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff announced he is donating $150 million to the state of Hawaii and its hospitals to help bridge "critical infrastructure ... Show more
A tech billionaire is quietly buying up land in Hawaii. No one knows why: A mystery has been brewing in a small ranching town on Hawaii's Big Island ...
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Quick Glance: Mysterious Billionaire Acquiring Land in Hawaii
- In Waimea, Hawaii, quiet land acquisitions stir concerns and speculations among locals.
- Tech billionaire Marc Benioff buys hundreds of acres in Waimea, Hawaii, without revealing clear intentions.
- Benioff's philanthropic projects include creating affordable housing and a community center in Waimea.
Tech Billionaire's Extensive Land Acquisitions in Hawaii Raise Alarms : Marc Benioff, co-founder of SalesForce, is reportedly involved in enigmatic land ...
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From Snap to Estée Lauder, Layoffs Are Testing Slash-and-Burn CEOs: Mass firings, a relatively new phenomenon, are a perfect example of a widespread yet deeply ...
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Tech layoffs: Salesforce to cut another 700 jobs: Salesforce is the latest prominent tech company set to implement layoffs this year, with plans to cut 700 ...
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Salesforce exec email: 'Get going' on Trailhead goal to keep bonus: Salesforce's chief engineering officer alluded to financial consequences for employees who ...
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Marc Benioff says AI can't be 'bad' like social media to win trust: The Salesforce CEO told the World Economic Forum that AI has to "cross the bridge of trust" ...
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Quick Glance: New Developments in AI: Opportunities and Risks
- Recent advances in AI have garnered global attention.
- Leaders from OpenAI and Microsoft were significant at the World Economic Forum.
- World leaders emphasize the geopolitical importance of AI and stake positions on its regulation.
- The European Union has developed the world’s first comprehensive rules for AI.
Weekend Leadership Roundup March 02, 2024: A collection of our best posts of the week in leadership
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6 takeaways from the 2024 World Economic Forum in Davos: What we learned from — and about — business leaders, world leaders, and AI innovators
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Quick Glance: Viewing the World: Dubai vs. Davos
- Dubai provides better global education than Davos
- Dubai offers a more realistic portrayal of the world than Davos
- Power is too diffused, but the trend of the world is best seen in Dubai
- The Dubai equivalents of Davos are rich people from middle-income countries
Salesforce CEO Says Retail Workers Won't Lose Jobs to AI: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Walmart US CEO John Furner spoke at the National Retail Federation ...
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Billionaires Wanted to Save the News Industry. They’re Losing a Fortune.: Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — owned by Marc Benioff ...
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Billionaires have swooped in to buy some of the most fabled news brands in the last decade. Time magazine, The Washington Post and The Los Angeles Times — ... Show more
What’s next for technology in a turbulent world? Experts like Open AI’s Sam Altman, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff, Pfizer’s Albert Bourla ... Show more
Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff had some choice words about social media regulation.
Watch his full conversation on building trust in AI at Bloomberg Live's #BloombergHouse ... Show more
ChatGPT’s creator Sam Altman was asked what humans would still do better than AI—he didn’t have a convincing answer
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Failed to Hit Internal Training Goal: Most Salesforce employees achieved "Ranger" status on the internal training program Trailhead ...
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Salesforce refutes reports that it's imposing a hiring freeze: "We are not freezing hiring in any departments," a Salesforce spokesperson told Business Insider.
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Another day, another accusation on OpenAI for stealing content; this time from TIME Magazine - MSPoweruser
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The proposed cities of the future look anything but modern: California Forever is an American 21st-century utopian vision, a new city to be built on 60 ...
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Salesforce Executive Hires and Departures in 2023: All of the executives who left or joined Salesforce this year.
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A Salesforce insider is dumping a lot of stock (and it's not Marc Benioff): Marc Benioff has been consistently selling his shares in Salesforce for nearly two ...
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Salesforce boss Marc Benioff is cashing out of his company’s shares with almost daily sales at a rate of $3m a day
fortune.com/2023/12/14/salesforce-boss-marc-benioff-cashing-out-company-shares-daily-sales-rate-3m-day/
Salesforce Jobs Become Less About Perks After Layoffs: Marc Benioff’s famously employee-friendly company is becoming more Darwinian—and providing a new model for ...
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Salesforce CEO pledges to match contracts of OpenAI researchers who join Einstein Trusted AI team
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Quick Glance: Internet Reacts to Marc Benioff's Attempts to Poach OpenAI Talent via X
- Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is striving to lead the race in poaching OpenAI's talent.
- However, his pitch is drawing more interest from internet trolls than OpenAI employees.
- One OpenAI employee wrote in response, 'the company that builds tableau isn't going to build AGI.'
- One person wrote, 'I don't work at OpenAI but I've been using ChatGPT for the past week and made a GPT agent that answers all of my wife's texts with a Seinfeld joke.'
Marc Benioff 's routine: 8 hours sleep, meditation: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff isn't one of those entrepreneurs telling you to wake at 4 a.m. to get ahead.
businessinsider.com/salesforce-marc-benioff-comments-on-meditation-sleep-schedule-2023-11
The CEO of Salesforce Pulled Out All the Stops to Poach OpenAI's Talent — But Now Sam Altman Is Back
entrepreneur.com/business-news/salesforce-ceo-benioff-eyes-openai-talent-post-altman-firing/465733
Dreamforce to return to San Francisco in 2024: Dreamforce, the annual conference hosted by Salesforce, among the largest employers in San Francisco ...
sfchronicle.com/sf/article/dreamforce-conference-san-francisco-salesforce-18475195.php
Salesforce shares jump on better-than-expected earnings report: Salesforce reported on Wednesday that revenue in the fiscal third quarter increased 11% while ...
cnbc.com/2023/11/29/salesforce-crm-q3-earnings-report-2024.html
Slack names Salesforce executive Denise Dresser new CEO: Denise Dresser, a longtime Salesforce exec, will replace current CEO Lidiane Jones ...
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Slack to Announce New CEO Next Week, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff Says: Slack CEO Lidiane Jones is leaving the workplace-communications app for the dating-app ...
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Marc Benioff’s Secrets to Happiness: He’s the founder of Salesforce, the owner of Slack and 'Time', and a billionaire many times over. He’s also seriously zen ...
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Dinner with China's Xi is the hot ticket for tech CEOS at APEC: Xi Jinping is set to host an exclusive dinner for tech execs at APEC. Summit attendees include ...
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A Buddhist monk helped forge the partnership behind Humane's Ai pin: Brother Spirit is a monk practicing at Plum Village, a Buddhist monastery in France that has ...
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Marc Benioff keeps tweeting this same message about SF police staffing: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff took to social media once again on Friday to call for ...
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The laid-off masses have a message for Mark Zuckerberg and Marc Benioff: We’ll never come back
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Marc Benioff recruits new employees - and gets a laugh on X: Marc Benioff actually made a great job offer to the OpenAI researchers. But they give him the cold ...
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Marc Benioff’s Secrets to Happiness: He’s the founder of Salesforce, the owner of Slack and 'Time', and a billionaire many times over. He’s also seriously zen ...
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Brand loyalty: Mercedes wants to retain customers like Apple: The car manufacturer is building an AI ecosystem with Salesforce that, according to the two CEOs ...
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Thinking about artificial intelligence: A recent on-stage discussion between Salesforce chief executive Marc Benioff and OpenAI boss Sam Altman suggested subtly ...
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Return-to-office policies may create boardroom brawls, HR execs say: Nearly three out of four organizations said return-to-office policies could prompt boardroom ...
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Marc Benioff drops a bomb after calling Salesforce workers back to their desks: ‘I don’t work well in an office—it just doesn’t work with my personality’
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Know what LLM stands for? It's short for "large language models," and they're about to bring fundamental change to the companies you own in your ... Show more
Breed responds to Benioff's safety concerns: S.F is getting better: Mayor London Breed responds to Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff’s public safety concerns: ‘Things ...
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Government must 'step it up' on regulating AI: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: The government has to get out in front of AI regulation, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff ...
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff is hiring again–with a particular focus on ‘boomerang’ employees: ‘It’s okay, come back’
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Going to Dreamforce 2023 in SF? Here’s what you should know: Going to the Dreamforce megaconference? Here’s what you should know about visiting and staying in ...
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Salesforce is hiring 3,300 people again after a wave of layoffs: In January, Salesforce wanted to cut costs and 10 percent of the workforce had to leave ...
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Bill Gates and Marc Benioff are feuding over trees: "Are we the science people or are we the idiots?" Bill Gates said about the idea of planting trees to fight ...
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Dreamforce 2023: How did SF clean up city streets for convention?: San Francisco streets and sidewalks were clean for the Dreamforce 2023 convention ...
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Salesforce was pushed by activist investors earlier this year to boost profits.
For the third quarter in a row, CEO Marc Benioff showed he heard the message ... Show more
Salesforce leaning on 'boomerang' execs to rejoin company after layoffs : Salesforce held an alumni event with 50 former executives last week who were gifted ...
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Google shifts Cloud Next sales shindig from SF to Las Vegas: What could possibly have attracted this tech titan to an all-day party zone?
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Marc Benioff: Dreamforce could leave S.F. if affected by homelessness: Marc Benioff: Next month’s Dreamforce could be the last in S.F. if it's affected by ...
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Salesforce boss Marc Benioff warns he may pull headline conference from San Francisco over rampant homelessness and drug use—but he’s donating $1 million to ...
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Salesforce turns to 'boomerangs,' luring back former execs to help reignite growth
cnbc.com/2023/09/18/salesforce-is-luring-boomerangs-to-reaccelerate-growth.html
On driverless trucks, will Newsom back labor or AI?: Gov. Gavin Newsom has a bill on his desk that will force him to choose between two of his most powerful ...
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Dreamforce is packing downtown S.F. Could it be the last time?: The amount of money brought into the city by convention events has dropped to a fraction of its ...
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Salesforce pledges $1 million for S.F. homeless program: Salesforce pledges $1 million for ‘desperately needed’ S.F. homeless program. Here are the details
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Salesforce CEO has 'always been a remote worker' despite RTO push: Tech companies like Salesforce, Amazon, and Meta have adjusted their return-to-office policies ...
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A Salesforce apresenta a sua estratégia de IA e alerta as empresas para o roubo de dados
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Open AI boss Sam Altman: AI regulation, misunderstandings and future prospects: At the Dreamforce customer conference of the US software company Salesforce ...
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Salesforce shares pop on earnings beat and optimistic forecast: Salesforce saw gains in all five product categories, and CEO Marc Benioff sees more growth from ...
cnbc.com/2023/08/30/salesforce-shares-pop-on-earnings-beat-and-optimistic-forecast.html
Salesforce is not planning more mass layoffs in 2023, CEO says: CEO Marc Benioff said there are no current plans for another big layoff and talked about how he's ...
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Salesforce CEO makes new comments on remote work: Silicon Valley and Wall Street execs have been pushing their workers to come back to the office.
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Salesforce’s latest gift to SFUSD: training teachers on AI: Salesforce’s latest gift to SFUSD: training teachers on AI along with millions of dollars
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Why Marc Benioff Sees Advances in A.I. as a "Call to Arms": The Salesforce founder says that A.I. advancements have re-energized him.
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Salesforce just hit a big profit goal faster than expected: The cloud software giant hit the 30% profit margin goal activist investor Starboard Value wanted.
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Salesforce CEO says San Francisco homelessness, drug use could force relocation of Dreamforce conference
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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff talks up A.I. ambitions—and dinner with Sam Altman—in earnings call anecdote
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CEO of San Francisco's Largest Employer Has Grim View of Metropolis' Future: San Francisco's downtown recently ranked last out of 63 cities in terms of ...
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What do CEOs think of SF? Here’s what Elon Musk, and others said: Elon Musk, Marc Benioff and other CEOs share their thoughts on San Francisco, where they live ...
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San Francisco's downtown 'never going back to the way it was,' Salesforce's Marc Benioff says
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What billionaires and CEOs are wearing at 2023 Sun Valley conference: We looked at what CEOs and billionaires wore to this year's Sun Valley conference. (And yes ...
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Salesforce, OpenAI CEOs invest in diagnostics company: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman were among investors in Vital Biosciences ...
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What do CEOs think of SF? Here’s what Elon Musk, and others said: Elon Musk, Marc Benioff and other CEOs share their thoughts on San Francisco, where they live ...
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Salesforce CEO shares his predictions for AI and the future of work: Salesforce founder Marc Benioff is among the few tech pioneers who is also still CEO at a ...
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Salesforce is paying Matthew McConaughey reported $10 million a year for creative help despite laying off 8,000 employees
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Salesforce’s Marc Benioff Sees Jump in Investor Support After 61% Rally: Salesforce Inc. shareholder support for Chief Executive Officer Marc Benioff grew in the ...
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Salesforce lures staff with $10 donation to charity for each day they're in the office
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