Cloud Computing: Marc Benioff Tops Tech CEOs in 2013
December 9, 2013
Grazed from TheStreet. Author: Chris Ciaccia.
Benioff, 49, won the voting with 54% of the vote, taking in more than 1300 votes, according to those surveyed. A former Oracle (ORCL_) executive, Benioff has continued to help lead the cloud computing revolution, turning software-as-a-service (SaaS) into a phrase.
He’s also continued to build out salesforce.com into more than just a traditional software company, focusing on making sense of social media. Perhaps a sign that stock price and CEO performance don’t always go hand-in-hand, shares of Salesforce.com have performed the worst out of the candidates mentioned, gaining 28.2% year to date…
Coming in behind Benioff was Zillow (Z_) CEO Spencer Rascoff, with 30% of the vote. Rascoff has turned Zillow into more than just a place where people go to check the price of their homes and their neighbors. Zillow is a legitimate business and is expanding into several initiatives, including rentals and mortgages…
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