2026-10-25
Marc Benioff: Putting 'No Software' on a Badge — The Oracle Prodigy Who Hired Fake Protesters and Turned Enterprise Software into a Utility
Ranked #39 on the 100 Product Managers Who Changed the World: Marc Benioff (OVR 88.45 — Business 95, Vision 93, Origin 90, Scale 86, Insight 84, Taste 78). Once Larry Ellison's youngest VP at Oracle, he launched Salesforce in 1999 with a slash through the word 'Software' and invented the modern SaaS industry.
