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For years, one person has loomed large in the mind of Bret Taylor: his former boss, Marc Benioff.
When Taylor quit suddenly as Benioff’s co-CEO at Salesforce after just a year in November 2022, Benioff was an inescapable point of discussion as Taylor sat down with Benchmark’s Peter Fenton to brainstorm ideas for what to do next. He knew if he chose to go up against Benioff, his ex-boss would be a formidable opponent. “He had an immense admiration for Marc,” Fenton recalled. “And that was conveyed to me.”..
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Artificial intelligence that rewrites code and can reprogram old apps into newer formats is lowering the cost of switching enterprise software providers and is poised to help companies tackle previously nearly impossible tasks, as Aaron reported Monday. One such task we’re hearing more about involves companies getting their data out of Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server, Teradata and other databases that run in the companies’ private data centers. Some companies want... Read more ›
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