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Salesforce escaped from the jaws of activists to find stability in 2023
Salesforce started the year with an unusual level of turbulence, but after escaping activist investors, it ended up having a good year.
Salesforce had a better quarter than expected, but it’s reporting and forecasting those results based on prior work, to a real degree.
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After investing $28B in Slack, Salesforce bets on one of its own as new CEO
We sat down one on one with the new Slack CEO Lidiane Jones to learn more about what it’s like taking over for a charismatic founder-CEO.
When Elliott announced it was withdrawing its slate of Salesforce board candidates, it seems that some activist pressure had been lifted.
Activist investor Elliott Investment Management won’t be proceeding with plans to nominate directors to Salesforce’s board.
It would be easy to think that when Salesforce announced that it was laying off 10% of the workforce in January that it would let those folks know, and it…
Salesforce has been in the news for a lot of non-product reasons of late, so it would be understandable that the company wants to bring the focus back to the…
After Salesforce delivered a stellar quarter, will it help get rid of the bevy of activist investors dogging the company?
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Salesforce strikes back
It would be an understatement to say that Salesforce has been having a rough ride of late — from activist pressure to executive departures and layoffs — it seems like everyone was piling onto a company that was already struggling as profits declined. It needed a strong quarter, and all…
Salesforce yields to activist pressure with harsh new policies for engineers, salespeople
Salesforce is looking at new ways to cut costs as activist investors continue to put pressure on the company. Today, Insider was reporting that the company is implementing much stricter…
Some Salesforce employees just found out they’re part of the 10% layoff announced last month
When Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce last month, you might have assumed that meant that everyone who was affected was informed at that time. With…
With two activist investors taking significant stakes in Salesforce, Marc Benioff will be challenged in ways he probably hasn’t been before.
Salesforce has been having a rough go of it lately, and the new year brought little relief with news it was laying off 10% of its workforce.
CNBC reported on Friday that Marc Benioff sent a message on the company Slack channel that newer employees weren’t as productive. He questioned if this was due to working from…
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Salesforce ends 2022 in an unusually turbulent position
Is this a short-term glitch in a bad year for all SaaS companies or a series of moves that could be indicative of something more worrisome at Salesforce?
It seems that maybe Salesforce co-founder and CEO Marc Benioff was protesting a bit too much when he gave what seemed like a genuinely heartfelt goodbye to his protégé, Bret…
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield was the third Salesforce exec to step down in less than a week.
Just days after Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor announced his resignation, Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced that he will be stepping down in January. Business Insider first reported the news. TechCrunch…
Salesforce co-CEO Bret Taylor’s resignation was a shock, and it’s safe to say that few if any saw this coming — even his mentor, Marc Benioff.
It’s been quite a roller coaster ride for Bret Taylor over the last year. In one week last December, he was named board chair at Twitter and co-CEO at Salesforce.…
Salesforce laid off hundreds of people this week as the onslaught of tech cutbacks continued unabated. The company would not share an exact number, but said it was less than…
With the Salesforce event back live and in person this week, just in time for its 20th anniversary, everyone seemed to be happy to be together at a live event.
Salesforce is the most successful SaaS company in the world. AWS is the biggest infrastructure player, and the two giants have gotten together over the years whenever it makes sense.…
With Benioff backing, Sustainable Ocean Alliance aims to be the rising tide that lifts all ‘ecopreneurs’
For a few years now the Sustainable Ocean Alliance has been a stalwart advocate for the “blue economy,” and an incubator for ocean-focused early-stage startups. Now empowered by $15 million…
Healthy pipeline generation is the bugbear of the AI/ML industry, yet there is very little content on how to address it.
Who knows whether it’s FOMO or actual customer demand for such a thing, but Salesforce announced today that it’s launching a pilot of NFT Cloud, a new platform for buying…
If you’re a regular reader of the tech and business press, it’s been painting a pretty gloomy economic picture recently, with a tendency to accentuate the negative. There’s inflation and…
Salesforce and Twitter are both lucky their purported $20B deal failed in 2016
What if history gone a bit differently and Salesforce had bought Twitter in 2016? We spoke to some analysts who cover the CRM industry to get their thoughts.
The terminal often feels like an afterthought, and there hasn’t been a lot of innovation in this space for a very long time. Warp, which is launching its public beta…
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