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‘Everything should be on the table’: activists close in on Salesforce
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Marc Benioff has built Salesforce into one of Silicon Valley’s most successful ventures but the personal style of 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.