Salesforce's year of the boomerang: Here are the C-suite executives who joined, left, or returned in 2023

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Marc Benioff, co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Salesforce.

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Marc Benioff just can't make up his mind on RTO

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Marc Benioff.

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Marc Benioff is trying to use X to poach talent from OpenAI, and people are having a field day in the comments

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Salesforce CEO and cofounder Marc Benioff

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Salesforce CEO pledges to match contracts of OpenAI researchers who resign and join Einstein Trusted AI team

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Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce (left) and Sam Altman former OpenAI CEO (right).
Following Sam Altman's ouster at OpenAI, Marc Benioff of Salesforce offered to buy out the contracts of any OpenAI researchers who resigned to join Salesforce.

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The tech world's quiet connector

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Ruzwana Bashir wears a Danz dress, Giuseppe Zanotti shoes, and her own bracelet and ring.

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Meet Brother Spirit, the Buddhist monk who doesn't believe in competition and is behind one of the great partnerships in Silicon Valley

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Brother Spirit is a monk practicing at Plum Village — a monastery in France.

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Slack staffers are 'gaming' the company's training platform to speed through tasks so they can return to regular duties, sources say

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff.

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Bill Gates declared it's 'complete nonsense' to think planting trees will solve climate change. 'Pro-tree' Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff accused him of going on a 'tirade.'

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Gates and Benioff disagree on the best way to address climate change.

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Salesforce gave former employees stuffed toys wearing boomerang shirts as the company seeks to bring back ex-staff amid a hiring drive

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff speaks at the Dreamforce 2023 keynote.

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Salesforce CEO says he's 'always been a remote worker,' even though some of his employees have to return to the office

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Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he's "always been a remote worker."

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