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Meet Marc Benioff

He’s a Proud Jew who has donated over a billion dollars to charity!

Oh and he also Founded  @salesforce, a $300B+ cloud computing powerhouse that pioneered Software and now employs over 70,000 people.

Born in 1964 to a proud Jewish family in San Francisco, California

Benioff showed entrepreneurial hustle from childhood.

 • At 15, he founded Liberty Software, creating and selling Atari games like King Arthur’s Heir and earning royalties that helped fund his future. 

• He sold his first program, “How to Juggle,” for $75 as a teen.

After graduating from the University of Southern California he joined Oracle in 1986, rising rapidly to become the company’s youngest vice president ever mentored by Larry Ellison and earning millionaire status by age 25.

Inspired by a sabbatical in India and vision from Steve Jobs, 

he left Oracle to co-found Salesforce in 1999 from a small San Francisco apartment, boldly declaring “The End of Software” by pioneering cloud-based CRM.

Salesforce exploded: • Grew from startup to Fortune 150 giant with massive revenues. • 

Revolutionized enterprise software, acquiring companies like Slack, Tableau, and MuleSoft. • Valuation soared past $300 billion in recent years, with Benioff’s stake contributing to his multi-billion-dollar fortune.

A deeply committed philanthropist embodying Jewish values of tikkun olam Benioff has donated hundreds of millions through Salesforce’s 1-1-1 model (1% equity, 1% product, 1% time to charity), supporting education, health, homelessness initiatives, and Jewish causes including Hatzalah

And Congregation Emanu-El and proud daily practice of wrapping tefillin.

He also owns  @TIMEmagazine purchased in 2018

From teenage game developer in the Bay Area to global tech leader and generous giver, Marc Benioff’s journey is a quintessential American Jewish success story rooted in innovation, bold vision, and family heritage.

Is anyone working for an employer that does remote work and is based in Seattle, WA, USA? I need to stay in Arizona until July 2026 for family reasons, but I would LOVE to move and lend my skills to a company who could use them, supports queer folk, and will pay me what I'm worth.

What I can do:

I know enough HTML, CSS, and Javascript to piss off people on dev teams who count on the rest of the company not knowing what they're doing

I'm an Excel GODDESS (VLookup is legacy garbage, use Xlookup or, even better, pipe the data through Power Query and use Power Pivot)

My current job is a combination Salesforce power-user, data analyst, devops, and project manager. Does my job title reflect ANY of that? Of COURSE not...

Prior to that, I was a Team Lead in charge of the Florida market, something I did while working remote. I worked with two others to manage a team of approx. 30 people.

I'm a member of the Pride ERG for the company and was selected to attend the Washington D.C HRC Dinner in 2024.

In 2022 I won an award from my current employer for creating a new, streamlined process for scheduling appointments.

Before that I was a Customer Care agent for the same company and went from a temp worker to the Top 5 performers in 6 months

Before I switched to Customer Care I was a "generalist" I.T. worker for 15 years, working as break-fix, housecalls, working as part of an I.T. team, being "the Mac guy" for a print shop, managing the I.T. for an insurance agency, and even working for Apple (retail, don't get too excited)

Why you should hire me:

If you're wrong, I'll tell you as much. I don't care if you're the same pay scale or the Owner/CEO. You're paying me and part of the value is when my expertise helps me see a red flag. Whether you listen to me or not is up to you.

If I don't know something, I won't bullshit you. I'll tell you to your face, "I don't know." I will then turn my Superpowers on the question and proceed to find out the answer, or at least get somewhat closer to the answer than you might have been before.

My superpowers are being Neurodivergent. I WILL hyperfocus until a project is done

I require little in the way of praise. So long as you're paying me enough to pay my bills and take care of my family and have enough left over for retirement and hobbies, I almost never ask anything

I strongly believe in making the boss look good. If you look good, you'll like what I do for you to make you look good

My Philosophy:

I believe in being ambitiously lazy. I will do as much work as needed to get the job done so I don't have to do it again. Having to do a thing a second time for anything short of prior failure means you've wasted people's time and money the first time

I would rather do MASSIVE amounts of work NOW if it means it will make my workload/job easier tomorrow

If you're in "emergency" mode for longer than 24 hours, you're doing something wrong. If you're in "crisis" mode for longer than 7 days, you're doing something wrong.

Unless you need to physically touch something in a building for the purpose of getting that specific thing to someone else that needs the physical thing, there is no need to work in an office. Remote Work is correct, as is Hybrid. Information workers do NOT need to work in an office.

There is no such thing as unskilled workers, only under-valued workers

The difference between me and anyone else is time and space. I am not inherently worth more or less than anyone else

Conversely, nobody gets "special treatment," everyone gets the same excellent treatment, period

Things to know about me:

I write fiction. If you're seeing me here you likely can find my work with a few clicks. Yes, that includes NSFW stuff. No, I won't work for a discount if you read my stuff, but read it anyway and leave a comment. 😋

I have a polycule and a daughter

I'm a pretty darn good home cook

If you want to hire me:

DM me to get my phone number and direct email

Prepare to help with moving expenses if at all possible. No matter what I'll be moving to Seattle after July 2026, how fast that goes depends on how quickly money can be applied directly to the problem of getting me there (Moving assistance == faster, no moving assistance == slower)