Salesforce, Inc.
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Salesforce, Inc.
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Company History
Founded 1999 in San Francisco, California
Marc Benioff left Oracle and founded Salesforce in 1999 with Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez around a simple thesis: enterprise CRM should run through a browser as a subscription service rather than be installed on company servers.
Marc Benioff, Parker Harris, Dave Moellenhoff, and Frank Dominguez founded Salesforce to deliver CRM through a browser.
Salesforce completed its initial public offering and gave the SaaS model public-market proof.
Salesforce opened the platform to third-party applications, strengthening its ecosystem moat.
Salesforce added analytics and visualization through the Tableau acquisition.
Salesforce acquired Slack to add workplace collaboration as a workflow surface for CRM data.
Salesforce reported $41.525 billion in FY2026 revenue, with subscription and support revenue of $39.388 billion.