Even though he built Salesforce into one of Silicon Valley’s most successful ventures, the personal style of Marc Benioff, the arch salesman who co-founded the software company, has long grated on his Wall Street critics.
There was the string of acquisitions, even after he appeared to promise to stop, and the preference for growth over profits. Those — and a slump in the company’s stock price — have put Salesforce squarely in the sights of some of Wall Street’s most-feared activist investors.
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