The son of a department store owner in San Francisco , Salesforce co-CEO Marc Benioff says his journey to becoming a billionaire software entrepreneur is in big part down to copying his father ’ s insatiable work ethic . Earning a 97 % approval rating from his employees , Benioff founded Salesforce in 1999 having spent 13 years at Oracle , where his desire to improve alongside his creative spark resulted in rapid progression . Over nearly 20 years , Benioff – alongside fellow co-CEO Keith Block – has grown Salesforce to become a pioneer in the field of cloud computing and the fastest-growing of the top five enterprise software companies in the world . www . salesforce . com

This December , Jeff Weiner – who received a 97 % employee approval rating in Glassdoor ’ s survey – will reach his

tenth anniversary as CEO of LinkedIn . At the beginning of his tenure , the business networking platform ’ s membership base stood at 33mn , but over the last decade Weiner has helped grow that number to half a billion through an inventive strategy involving gamechanging recruitment tools and an aggressive approach to advertising . The New York native has enjoyed a fascinating career that saw him begin as a junior at Warner Bros before rising several rungs to become a VP during the dotcom bubble . He has also had influential roles at the likes of Windsor Media and Yahoo . about . linkedin . com

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