Marc Benioff — ceo (salesforce) with roots in the Russian Empire
Marc Benioff is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce — one of the world's leading cloud software companies and a pioneer of the SaaS (software as a service) model. He co-founded Salesforce in 1999 and has built it into a company worth over $200 billion, while also being one of Silicon Valley's most prominent philanthropists and advocates for corporate social responsibility.
Tracing the roots — Kyiv (Ukraine)
His grandfather Isaac Benioff emigrated from Kyiv (Russian Empire, now Ukraine) to the United States — part of the Jewish emigration from the Pale of Settlement. Benioff has spoken about his family's immigrant origins and how the Jewish tradition of tzedakah (charitable giving) directly inspired Salesforce's 1-1-1 model of corporate philanthropy.
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Kyiv (Ukraine). At the time, this region lay within the Russian Empire, which spanned from Poland to the Pacific.
A career defined by ambition
"The business of business is improving the state of the world."