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Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
Marc Benioff
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Marc Benioff
Age: 60
Born: 1964
Born: September 25
Businessman
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Chief Executive Officer
San Francisco County
California
Marc Russell Benioff
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