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“ We are on the threshold of a dramatic change in the way we work with computers ”
“ When I look back at 2019 , we had really gone through three huge waves of technology : cloud computing , mobile and social ,” Benioff said in an interview with the Associated Press . “ And now we are going into the fourth wave , which is probably the most important one in AI , which is not just the most important technology of our lifetime , but probably the most important in any lifetime . It ’ s going to be a new world of technology that ’ s as exciting as all the other worlds put together .
“ We are on the threshold of a dramatic change in the way we work with computers . We are going to work side by side with them . And , in many cases , they are going to augment or extend what we havebeen doing .”
A member of the World Economic Forum ( WEF ) Board of Trustees , Benioff serves as the inaugural Chair of WEF ’ s Forum Center for the Fourth Industrial Revolution in San Francisco .
Benioff is the owner and co-chair of TIME , and is author of the New York Times bestseller Trailblazer : The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change .
Before launching Salesforce , Benioff spent 13 years at Oracle Corporation , where he was the youngest vice president in the company ’ s history . When he was 14 years old , he sold his first piece of software , “ How to Juggle ,” for US $ 75 . He founded his first company , Liberty Software , which created video games , wwwat the age of 15 .
Benioff received a B . S . in Business Administration from the University of Southern California , where he is on its Board of Trustees . In 2014 , USC awarded Benioff an honorary degree of Doctor of Humane Letters .
Benioff was named Innovator of the Decade by Forbes , and is recognised as one of the World ’ s 25 Greatest Leaders by Fortune and one of the 10 Best-Performing CEOs by Harvard Business Review . For his leadership on equality , Benioff has been honoured by GLAAD , the Billie Jean King Leadership Initiative and Variety Magazine with its EmPOWerment Award .
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