- “Oracle had opportunity to set themselves up for the next decade to thrive, and I would argue they squandered it,” said Villi Iltchev, who ran corporate development at Salesforce from 2009 to 2013.
- Salesforce’s $27.7 billion purchase of Slack follows the $15.3 billion deal for Tableau last year and $6.5 billion acquisition of MuleSoft in 2018.
- Marc Benioff, Salesforce’s co-founder and CEO, has become the biggest dealmaker in software, a role once held by his former boss at Oracle, Larry Ellison.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/02/salesforce-ceo-marc-benioff-steals-dealmaking-crown-from-larry-ellison.html