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title: "Salesforce: AI company profile, people and coverage"
description: "Salesforce, Inc. is an American enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California."
canonical: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-salesforce
type: Organization
wikidata: Q941127
wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce
website: https://www.salesforce.com
source: AI News Monitor
publisher: Paciva
license: CC BY 4.0 for this page's own layer; facts from Wikidata (CC0 1.0)
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# Salesforce

> Salesforce, Inc. is an American enterprise software company headquartered in San Francisco, California.

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## Facts

- Category: Data and infrastructure
- Country: United States
- Founded: 1999-02-03
- Headquarters: Salesforce Tower
- Status: public
- Website: https://www.salesforce.com
- Employees: 35,000 (as of 2019-01-01)
- Also known as: SFDC, salesforce.com, Salesforce.com, Inc.
- Industries: automation, cloud computing, analytics, customer relationship management, software industry, intelligent agent, email marketing, software as a service, enterprise software

## Accounts

- x: https://x.com/salesforce
- linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/salesforce
- github: https://github.com/forcedotcom
- facebook: https://www.facebook.com/5634829153
- instagram: https://www.instagram.com/salesforce

## Key people

- Marc Benioff, founder (American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist)
- Marc Benioff, chief executive (American internet entrepreneur and philanthropist), since 1999-03-01
- Taher Elgamal (American cryptographer)
- Guillaume Pepy (French businessman)
- Patricia Selinger (American computer scientist and IBM Fellow)
- Silvio Savarese (American computer scientist)

## Revenue

- undated: USD 748.7 million (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 1.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 2.3 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 3.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 4.1 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 5.4 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 6.7 billion (SEC filing)
- undated: USD 8.4 billion (SEC filing)
- 2007-01-01: USD 748.7 million (Wikidata)
- 2008-01-01: USD 1.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2009-01-01: USD 1.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2010-01-01: USD 1.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2011-01-01: USD 2.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2012-01-01: USD 3.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2013-01-01: USD 4.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2014-01-01: USD 5.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2015-01-01: USD 6.7 billion (Wikidata)
- 2016-01-01: USD 8.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2017-01-01: USD 10.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2018-01-01: USD 13.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2019-01-01: USD 17.1 billion (Wikidata)
- 2020-01-01: USD 21.3 billion (Wikidata)
- 2021-01-01: USD 26.5 billion (Wikidata)
- 2022-01-01: USD 31.4 billion (Wikidata)
- 2023-01-01: USD 34.9 billion (Wikidata)
- 2024-01-01: USD 37.9 billion (Wikidata)

## Ownership

Subsidiaries: [Heroku](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-heroku.md), [ClickSoftware Technologies](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-clicksoftware-technologies.md), [Demandware](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-demandware.md), Salesforce Marketing Cloud, [MuleSoft](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-mulesoft.md), Tableau Software, Inc., VLocity, [Quip](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-quip.md), [Krux](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-krux.md), [Slack Technologies, LLC](https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-slack-technologies-llc.md)

## Products

- artificial intelligence
- data integration
- cloud computing
- e-commerce
- analytics
- automation technology
- intelligent agent
- email marketing
- software as a service
- enterprise software
- virtual agent
- integration platform
- Heroku
- data visualization software
- Order management system
- Small business software
- Headless software
- marketing automation
- B2B e-commerce
- customer data platform
- customer relationship management software
- Salesforce
- AI agent
- agentic commerce
- Freemium software

## Coverage on the Monitor

Every article, podcast, video and market the Monitor holds on Salesforce, dated and linked to its publisher: https://monitor.paciva.ai/company-salesforce#connections

## Sources

- Facts: Wikidata (CC0 1.0), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q941127, read 2026-11-11
- Summary: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salesforce
- Filings: SEC EDGAR, https://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?action=getcompany&CIK=0001108524

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