The rise of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff: Net worth, career, spending

Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a net worth of $6.5 billion, according to Forbes.

Benioff is something of an anomaly among Silicon Valley CEOs — he was actually born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Benioff worked at Oracle for 13 years before leaving the company to work on Salesforce full time.

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It seems like Salesforce CEO and founder Marc Benioff never leaves the spotlight.

Between Salesforce's Dreamforce mega-conference in San Francisco, his philanthropy, and his willingness to take political stands, it seems like he's always in the spotlight — even if, sometimes, it's because he's facing protests over Salesforce's work with the United States Customs and Border Patrol.

Salesforce itself is in a good position at the moment: Under Benioff's leadership, the company has swelled to a $121 billion market cap, even as it hit $10 billion in annual revenue for the 2018 fiscal year. It's gone from an upstart Oracle rival to a cloud computing behemoth in its own right.

Here's how Benioff, whose estimated net worth now stands at $6.5 billion, worked his way up to the national stage from humble origins.