{"id":16105,"date":"2021-12-01T09:20:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technewsday.com\/?p=16105"},"modified":"2021-12-02T09:05:09","modified_gmt":"2021-12-02T14:05:09","slug":"bret-taylor-to-serve-as-salesforces-co-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/bret-taylor-to-serve-as-salesforces-co-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bret Taylor To Serve As Salesforce\u2019s Co-CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In a statement released Tuesday, Salesforce confirmed that Bret Taylor will serve as co-CEO with co-founder and current CEO Mark Benioff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While he has served the company as president and COO since 2019, his recent promotion also promoted Taylor to vice-chairman of the Board.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Commenting on Taylor&#8217;s new position, Salesforce co-founder Benioff said, &#8220;Bret is a phenomenal industry leader who has been instrumental in creating incredible success for our customers and driving innovation throughout our company. He has been my trusted friend for years, and I couldn&#8217;t be happier to welcome him as Co-CEO. We&#8217;re in a new world and Salesforce has never been more relevant or strategic for our customers. Together, Bret and I will lead Salesforce through our next chapter, while living our shared values of trust, customer success, innovation, and equality for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company also released a third-quarter report that beat analysts&#8217; expectations thanks to revenue from its Customer 360 and Slack platforms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The company posted a non-GAAP profit of $1.27 per share and third-quarter revenue of $6.86 billion, a jump of 27% from a year earlier. Analysts had forecast a profit of 92 cents per share on revenue of $6.8 billion.<\/p>\n\n\n<p>For more information, read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/salesforce-promotes-bret-taylor-to-co-ceo-alongside-marc-benioff\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">original story<\/a> in ZDNet.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Salesforce confirmed that Bret Taylor will serve as co-CEO with co-founder and current CEO Mark Benioff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[262],"class_list":["post-16105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leadership","tag-salesforce"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16105"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16128,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16105\/revisions\/16128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/technewsday.com\/staging\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}